...prosecuting that fishery will see their first full year under the new king salmon cap, which limits the central and western Gulf of Alaska fleets to 25,000 fish split between the winter and fall seasons.The National Marine Fisheries Service...

...weather just outside of Hinchinbrook Entrance - where loaded tankers leave the Sound - is common, more so than in the western Gulf of Alaska where the Shell rig ran into trouble. That's why meteorologists nicknamed the northeast Gulf of Alaska...

...every fish," Krueger said. The western Gulf fleet numbers about 25 boats...total of 31,647 and the 2010 western Gulf total of 31,581. The 2007 total...2010 total exceeds the sum for the western Gulf for the previous nine years. The...

...be catching many kings this year either, because returns have been extremely low to river systems in the central and western Gulf of Alaska. But while king salmon returns have declined, the bycatch of kings in Gulf trawl fisheries has risen dramatically...

...earthquake Thursday afternoon was felt on Kodiak Island. The quake, centered about 25 miles southeast of Kodiak in the western Gulf of Alaska, occurred at 12:38 p.m., according to the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center. The earthquake had a magnitude...

...percent on vessels of less than 60 feet; and the potential to create mandatory bycatch cooperatives in the Central and Western Gulf to regulate fishing behavior in a derby-style fishery. A hard cap for a prohibited species catch shuts down the fishery...