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The Aleut Community of St. Paul Island announced Friday that it has signed an agreement with the federal government aimed at jointly managing the waters surrounding the Bering Sea island.

The state-water cod fishery for pot gear boats of 58 feet or less in the Dutch Harbor Subdistrict opened Thursday, Feb. 1 at noon. Those harvesters have a limit of 60 pots per vessel and a guideline harvest level of a little more than 44 million pounds. That’s the largest harvest level the fishery has ever seen. Last year’s was the second biggest at just over 38 million pounds.

Bering Sea fishermen are now trawling for pollock. "B" season opened last week with a total quota of almost 742,764 metric tons, which is about 1.5…

A month into pollock "B" season, fishermen have caught about 16 percent of the quota.That's a bit of a slow start, according to Krista Milani of the…

Bering Sea fishermen are now trawling for one of Alaska’s most profitable catches.Pollock "B" season opened Sunday with a total quota of 731,804 metric…