Murkowski, King Reintroduce Legislation to Help Coastal Workforce, Fisheries, and Infrastructure - Alaska Native News

Murkowski, King Reintroduce Legislation to Help Coastal Workforce, Fisheries, and Infrastructure - Alaska Native News

Washington, D.C. – Friday, U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Angus King (I-ME), reintroduced the Working Waterfronts Act, legislation which includes more than a dozen provisions aimed at boosting the workforce, energy and shoreside infrastructure, food security, and economies of coastal communities in Alaska and across the country. The bill will also support efforts to […]

In Kake ruling, Ninth Circuit hands Feds a major win in decades-old dispute over subsistence in Alaska

The OVK – or Organized Village of Kake – petitioned the Federal Subsistence Board in 2020 shortly after nationwide lockdowns and supply chain disruptions threatened the food supply to the 500 residents of the community, located on Kupreanof Island, about 50 miles east of Sitka. (Melati Kaye photo)The 3-judge panel handed down its ruling on June 2, in a case involving the Southeast community of Kake, which had asked the Federal Subsistence Board …

Alaska fishery managers, industry concerned by cuts to federal science agency

'There's often a fair amount of conflict around fisheries; that conflict is likely to increase as resources get more strained' -- Bill Tweit, North Pacific Fishery Management Council