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Every February, birders around the world spend a few days tallying every species they can find, giving scientists a snapshot of bird populations just before spring migration begins.

Many people around the state have heard of the Area M salmon fishery. Lately, it’s been tossed around like a bad word. That’s a clever tactic used to dehumanize the people of my region – and it’s working. It’s much easier to vilify and politicize a name on a chart than to acknowledge multigenerational, Indigenous Alaskan fishing families like my own.

Federal fisheries regulators have set some limits on salmon chum bycatch in the Bering Sea. The highly debated – and long awaited – decision aims to protect declining salmon stocks while minimizing harm to pollock fisheries.

The MV Tustumena is scheduled to make five chain runs between June and September, roughly the same schedule since the start/onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when sailings were cut in half.

Subsistence communities in Western Alaska ask for strict limits on the Bering Sea trawl fishery.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is evaluating whether to hold a first-of-its-kind lease sale for seabed mineral development in federal waters off Alaska, and seeking information and input to help decide if it should move forward.

The Unalaska school board has selected a new superintendent to lead the island’s school district next year.

After years of delays, the build contract to replace the Alaska Marine Highway System’s ferry Tustumena is out to bid. The state’s project notice calls for the new mainliner ferry to be completed by the beginning of 2029 with an estimated price tag of more than $300 million.

The long-anticipated decision over pollock trawlers’ chum bycatch has seafood towns like Unalaska worried.

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