Issue: April 2022

Northern Enterprises Boat Yard Undergoes Major Expansion

Northern Enterprises Boat Yard Undergoes Major Expansion

As a thriving boat repair and maintenance facility with a 40-year history, Homer, Alaska-based Northern Enterprises Boat Yard has periodically undergone expansion and infrastructure improvements. But the 35-acre boatyard, which is located about 220 miles south of the state’s capital and biggest city, Anchorage, has never faced as massive a project as the one completed in the past few months. “We added an extension to our present dock,” explained Ken Moore, who co-owns the facility with his wife, Roseleen “Snooks” Moore. “We extended the (existing) dock 50 feet. Along with that, we added a new dock for a 200-metric-ton (boat hoist) machine —all of our lifts are travel lifts, this will be the fifth lift we’ve bought. And the 200-metric-ton (travel lift) will pick (up) 240,000 pounds. So,...
Read More
Cook Inlet Fishermen Challenge End to Federal Waters Fishery

Cook Inlet Fishermen Challenge End to Federal Waters Fishery

A collective of commercial salmon fishermen in Alaska have mounted a new legal effort to restore their right to fish in the federal waters of Cook Inlet. A lawsuit filed in federal court in Anchorage in early February by United Cook Inlet Drift Association and Cook Inlet Fishermen’s Fund against the National Marine Fisheries Service contends that NOAA Fisheries’ approval of the fishery closure is arbitrary, capricious and contrary to law. The litigation comes in the wake of a decision of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council in late 2021 to close those federal waters to commercial fishing. Plaintiffs’ attorneys argue that the Ninth Circuit Court held previously that NOAA Fisheries is required to produce a fishery management plan to govern the Cook Inlet salmon fishery, as the s...
Read More