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ComFish Alaska 2023 Takes On Climate Change, Legal Challenges to State’s Fisheries
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ComFish Alaska 2023 Takes On Climate Change, Legal Challenges to State’s Fisheries

Participants in ComFish Alaska 2023, undeterred by a spring snowstorm that halted jet traffic in and out of Kodiak for a day, tackled climate challenges to fisheries, including plastics pollution and prospective economic and environmental benefits of the mushrooming kelp mariculture efforts. The state’s biggest and longest-running commercial fisheries trade show, which began in a borrowed Alaska National Guard wall tent in 1980, incorporated into its March 16-18 program in Kodiak a mix of presenters ranging from harvesters, fisheries managers, federal and state legislators to historians and experts in marine debris and kelp mariculture. The event also featured 46 trade show booths offering fishing marine supplies, vessel permits and sales, expertise in satellite technology, health care...
ComFish 2023 Comes to Kodiak, Alaska March 16-18
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ComFish 2023 Comes to Kodiak, Alaska March 16-18

ComFish Alaska, billed as the state’s premier commercial fisheries trade show, opens for its 44th year in Kodiak on March 16, with forums ranging from federal and state fisheries issues to bycatch harvests, vessel safety, marine debris and the future of kelp mariculture in the state. Forty-five vendors, ranging from gear vendors to government agencies and non-profit entities will make up this year’s trade show at Kodiak High School, where three days of forums are also slated. The presentations are set to open with a federal legislative update from Alaska’s congressional delegation, followed by a review of Gulf of Alaska bycatch-related recommendations proposed by the Alaska Bycatch Review Task Force. A forum on marine ecosystem partnerships is planned to include highlights of the Skip...