Fishermen and Managers Working Together To Ensure Banner Harvest of Tanner Crab

Fishermen and Managers Working Together To Ensure Banner Harvest of Tanner Crab

Top photo: Tanner crab via Wikipedia In a town like Kodiak, which is sustained by fishing, there are few opportunities to make a living other than commercial fishing. Back in mid-January, local Tanner crab vessels steamed out of Kodiak and Old Harbor with high hopes for a successful crab season. This year the excitement had […]

April Reflections from Alaska

April Reflections from Alaska

April is a predictable month in Alaska. The days grow longer, the snow melts, foliage blossoms and salmon feel the call home. Fishermen and policy-makers fight their own pull back to the sea and train their attention on the last few meetings before the lives of thousands of commercial fishermen and processors will revolve around […]

The Alaska Marine Conservation Council: Making Waves for 24 Years

The Alaska Marine Conservation Council:  Making Waves for 24 Years

This post is part of an ongoing series profiling the Network’s partners and their good work. In 1992, with support from the Alaska Conservation Foundation, Nevette Bowen, a community organizer and fisherman, traveled coastal Alaska to listen to the marine conservation concerns of fishermen, subsistence harvesters and coastal residents. A consensus emerged from these coastal […]