Bering Sea Fisheries – Fishermens News

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Bering Sea Fisheries, Features

Pandemic, Changing Markets Pose Challenges
for Bering Sea Fisheries

By Margaret Bauman Harvesters who annually deliver millions of pounds of wild Alaska seafood from the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands are facing new challenges these days: an ongoing global pandemic that has perhaps forever changed the way they operate, and the industry’s markets themselves. For a second consecutive season, groundfish and shellfish harvesters operating in these often stormy, icy waters are prioritizing their responsibility to keep their employees and the coastal communities they work in safe from the novel coronavirus, while continuing to operate in changing markets. “The greatest challenge for 2021 is to continue to stay operational across multitudes of fisheries and communities across Alaska, while protecting those communities and our workforce from COVID-19, so that ...

Bering Sea Processing

Mark Edward Nero The Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands region is the “sweet spot” of the US North Pacific fishing industry. Not only does it support some of the largest and most valuable commercial fisheries in the United States, but a number of international companies also maintain a presence in the region due to its large and diverse number of fish species. Major fish processing operations are located in Dutch Harbor, Saint Paul, and Akutan, where such species as crab, walleye pollock, scallops, cod, flatfish, sablefish, Pacific salmon, and Pacific herring are found. Additionally, finfish and shellfish stocks in the area provide year-round commercial fishing opportunity for all sizes of vessels and sustain important subsistence harvests for local residents. Transport Sitka, Al...

Fishing Systems: Real Time Information and Decision Making

By Mike Hillers Successful fishing trips are the result of tools and intuition and how these system components manifest themselves in the brains of the fishermen to become decisions and commands from the wheelhouse. Delving into the brains of fishermen might be best left alone, or to the professionals, but tools are fun, plentiful and very varied. Selecting tools to form ‘Fishing Systems’ that can provide the information and data to influence decision making is important. The right tools will both ease stress and increase the efficiency of all fishing operations. Many decisions are made on a macro level; When to fish and where to fish are the usually the result of regulation, weather or geography. Within the confines of these parameters however the fisherman takes control. It is u...