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Bill introduced by Alaska’s Murkowski aims to promote use of eDNA analysis in fishery management

  • Yereth Rosen

Federal fishery managers would start analyzing the DNA collected in ocean waters to help inform their decisions, under a bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. Senate, Alaska’s Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said on Thursday. Called the Fisheries Science Modernization Act, the bill would set up a system for the use of environmental DNA, known […]

Virginia

Menhaden management board advances addendum with potential cuts to Chesapeake Bay fishery limits

  • Shannon Heckt

The regional board overseeing menhaden management along the Atlantic coast on Wednesday  advanced a measure to implement new restrictions on Virginia’s only reduction fishery that harvests the oily forage fish within the Chesapeake Bay.  The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s draft addendum would reduce the Bay-specific menhaden catch limits for the fishery, Ocean Harvesters, which […]

Commentary

Bristol Bay is more than a fishery — it is a way of life

  • Marc Vance

Five days after graduating from high school in 1980, my identical twin brother, Malcolm, and I boarded a plane for Alaska. We were young, restless and convinced we were heading north to make our fortune. We had no idea Alaska would shape the rest of our lives. Our first couple summers were spent working long […]