Two large seafood processing plants in the Aleutian Islands have been hit with COVID-19 infections as the busy winter pollock fishing season is set to kick off.
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Feds will invest $46.5M to boost high-speed internet in coastal Alaska
More than half of the federal money is going to GCI to build an 800-mile long undersea fiber cable stretching from Kodiak Island, along the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Chain.
Marine highway communities say: Along with passengers, the future rides on the ferry
A nine-member working group is reviewing a $250,000 study commissioned by Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration, one that has already ruled out privatizing the state ferry fleet because it doesn’t pencil out.
Ferry Tustumena crew member tests positive for COVID-19, passengers quarantined
It was the first trip back in service for the ferry, it stopped at 8 communities between Homer and Unalaska.
Aleutian school in danger of shutting down
To get full funding, each Alaska school needs at least 10 students. But at the Yakov E. Netsvetov school in Atka, there are only six — meaning this could be the school’s final year.
Unalaska City Council hears quotes for removing the F/V Akutan
The processor F/V Akutan was abandoned in Unalaska’s Captains Bay in September following a disastrous fishing season in Bristol Bay where the ship’s owner went broke, the crew went unpaid, and it’s 158,000 pound haul of salmon was declared unfit for human consumption.
Come 2018, the state plans to dispose of F/V Akutan
The processor was abandoned in September following a disastrous fishing season in Bristol Bay where the ship’s owner went broke, the crew went unpaid, and it’s 158,000 pound haul of salmon was declared unfit for human consumption.
Responders have mitigated pollution threat of F/V Akutan, Coast Guard says
Coast Guard Petty Officer John-Paul Rios said responders have removed almost 16,000 gallons of oil and sludge from the F/V Akutan, which is moored in Captains Bay.
Quinhagak commercial fishermen struggle after two years without a buyer
Several weeks ago, the financing fell through on a plan to bring the “Akutan,” a floating fish processing vessel, to Kuskokwim Bay. Fishermen in the coastal community of Quinhagak have nowhere to sell their catch for the second summer in a row. Many in the village are now struggling to make ends meet.
F/V Akutan’s sad, failed season in Bristol Bay
How a custom processor for a group of Bristol Bay drift boats ran late and ran out of money in 2017. The owner went broke, the fishermen lost their market, the crew was never paid, and for some ten days the troubled vessel and crew languished against their will in the Nushagak River. Liens piled up on the 130,000 lbs of frozen sockeye onboard as the captain steamed to Dutch Harbor for repairs.