Ice-Blog: Atlantic cod pushing out Arctic relatives?
When I visited the AWI Biological Institute on the German North Sea island of Helgoland last year for a story
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Qikiqtarjuaq fishery shows promise in northern Canada
The Arctic Fishery Alliance’s attempt to establish a turbot fishery in Qikiqtarjuaq, a community of about 500 people in Canada’s
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BLOG -Seldom spoken truth in subsistence battle: How unproductive Alaska lands really are
Alaska’s long, bitter subsistence battle is back in the news again. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, last week called a hearing
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Blog: Norway’s election result and the implications for the Lofoten Islands
In my previous post, I noted how there isn’t likely to be a dramatic shift in Norway’s Arctic policy
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U.S. tourists missing in Nunavut, Canada presumed dead
Two American fishermen who vanished on a remote Nunavut lake are presumed dead and the search is now a recovery
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Picky Swedes dump a thousand tonnes of shrimp
Swedish fishers dump an estimated 1,000 of shrimp in the sea in order to maximise profits, reports Swedish Radio News.
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Dipnetting in Alaska’s Kenai River’s red salmon rodeo
KENAI — It’s midweek, but thousands of Alaskans have taken the day off to harvest what’s shaping up as a
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King salmon returns slowing, Alaska managers roll out closures
Abysmal king salmon returns to the Kenai River already have fisheries managers curtailing fishing in one of Alaska’s most popular
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‘Idle No More’ rallies in Juneau, Alaska
By Lisa Phu, KTOO – Juneau About 30 adults and children called for equality and greater subsistence fishery protection Wednesday
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New high-tech training for Nunavut, Canada fishermen
A new piece of training equipment will give a boost to fisheries training in Iqaluit, the capital city of Canada’s
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Nunavut, Canada to develop summer in-shore turbot fishery
This summer, a man from the community of Pangnirtung, in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, will head to Newfoundland
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Cultures collide in Alaska court
BETHEL — The strangely cathartic business of assembly-line justice ground its way through a state court here Tuesday as one by one
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Salmon run’s survival trumps religious rights of Alaska Native fishermen: judge
BETHEL — One by one, Yupik fishermen from along the Kuskokwim River appeared before an Alaska District Court judge here
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Hovercraft rescue from ice in North Finland
Despite frequent warnings from Finnish authorities, people still venture out onto the weakened sea ice in late spring. Rescue officials
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No drinking water in Alaska town since March
Nearly a month has passed since Unalakleet’s water system shut down, and the Norton Sound village of about 700 people
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