by Laine Welch | Oct 19, 2021 | Catch Shares, Fish Radio Programs, Halibut, Sablefish
Photo credit: Alaskan Quota and Permits, Petersburg Quota shares of Alaska halibut are in high demand but good luck finding any. Dock...
by Laine Welch | Jan 26, 2021 | Fish Radio Programs, Hook and Line, Pot Gear, Sablefish
Lightweight, collapsible coiled pots are changing the game for Alaska black cod fishermen and in under two years, nearly 10,000 will soon be working the fishing grounds. “I’ve had more than one fisherman tell me that for the first time in a long time they...
by Laine Welch | Nov 6, 2020 | Bycatch, Fish Radio Programs, Sablefish, Trawlers
Credit: Deck Boss blog Bycatch Becoming Massive Issue in BSAI and GOA: First Halibut, Now Sablefish, Soon Crab...
by Laine Welch | Dec 9, 2019 | Catch Shares, Crab, Fish Radio Programs, Halibut, Sablefish
Fewer Alaska fishermen are going after halibut and sablefish, based on the declining number of bills being sent out to those holding quota shares of the catch. Eighteen hundred invoices went out to fishermen this month, down 30 from last year, and down from nearly...
by Laine Welch | Sep 27, 2019 | Bycatch, Fish Radio Programs, Sablefish
Sablefish Bycatch Overage in Bering Sea is More Than Triple the Allocation By peggyparker@urnerbarry.com By the end of August, the allowable trawl sablefish bycatch was triple what it should have been: 2,229 mt, or nearly 1,600 mt over its allocation of 633...
by Laine Welch | May 1, 2019 | Fish Radio Programs, Permits & IFQs, Sablefish
An Alaska black cod chomped on by a sperm whale Credit: SEASWAP As with halibut IFQs, quota shares of sablefish, or black cod, also have slumped in value, in some cases by 40 percent. “Certainly in the...
