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LEE HORTON'S OUTDOORS COLUMN: Halibut derby this weekendPeninsula DailyThe popular derby will award $20,000 worth of cash prizes to the top 30 halibut caught by ticket holders within the U.S. waters from Low Point to the base of Dungeness Spit. The angler who catches the biggest fish will receive $5,000, second place gets ...and more »

Halibut derby opens with 97-pound leaderValdez StarSo, the miles and piles of snow lingering in town might not realize the calendar says it's spring, but anglers in the Valdez Halibut Derby do. Justin Hoppe of Valdez is one such man; he hit Prince William Sound on board the charter boat Dan Orion and ...

Ballard angler hooks big halibut out of kayak off Neah BayThe Seattle Times (blog)Another big fish story has been reeled in, and this one ranks in the lore of David and Goliath. One of the hardest challenges for boat anglers is catching a giant halibut, but just imagine doing it aboard a 14-foot kayak. That is just what Brad Hole of ...

Port Angeles area halibut fishery reopened with good results but faded by ...The Seattle Times (blog)“We had a couple decent days of halibut fishing, and then it dropped off as the weather kind of got crummy and foggy,” said Larry Bennett, the head state Fish and Wildlife checker in the Strait. On Thursday (May 16), 111 boats with 246 anglers at the ...

97-pound halibut leads Valdez derbyAnchorage Daily NewsValdez angler Justin Hoppe took the early lead in his hometown's annual halibut derby, hooking a 97-pound fish Saturday in Prince William Sound. Hoppe caught his fish aboard Dan Orion charters. So did Shawn Shipman of Whitehorse, who ranks second in ...

My Ballard (blog)Ballard angler lands giant halibut from kayakMy Ballard (blog)Catching a big fish is always a thrill, but when your vessel is a kayak, it adds a certain dimension of excitement and danger. One can only imagine the thoughts running through Ballard resident Brad Hole's head when he pulled a 4.5-foot halibut on ...

Salmon Confidential: documentary about Norway's fish-farmingBoing BoingLong story short: Avoid farmed fish the same way you avoid industrial red meat, insist on wild-caught sockeye salmon, and boycott Norwegian fish products because their global fish farms have killed 90% of local healthy salmon populations, including the ...

DC Everest fishing team hosts event for disabled residents (with video)Wausau Daily HeraldD.C. Everest Junior High School students Michelle Vang, left, Katrina Yang, Linda Yang, and science teacher Meg Peterson, haul out their canoe Friday afternoon from Wisconsin River during a fishing event in Rothschild. / T'xer Zhon Kha/Daily Herald ...and more »

Newark man held at gunpoint; robbed of car, cash, phone, fishing poleThe Jersey Journal - NJ.comA Newark man lured to a Monmouth Street home under the guise of purchasing a car part was robbed at gunpoint of his car, $1,000 cash, a fishing pole and an iPhone, police said. The 23-year-old arrived at the house and parked his 2005 silver Acura RSX ...and more » […]

How Safe Are Alaska's Bridges?Alaska Public Radio NetworkBy Alexandra Gutierrez, APRN - Juneau | May 24, 2013 - 5:13 pm. (Department ... Patrick Natale is the executive director of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and he says that Alaska gets about a C+ on his group's infrastructure report card. “It ...and more »

Alaska has 31% of all Active Volcanoes in the United StatesScience Daily (press release)Alaska's volcanoes make up about 31% of all active volcanoes in the United States. There are 52 that have been active within the last 10,000 years and can be expected to erupt again. At present, 28 are monitored with ground-based instrumentation, and ...Two Remote Vo […]

Colo. man indicted by federal grand jury in AlaskaSan Francisco ChronicleANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Colorado man is indicated by a federal grand jury in Alaska for perjury and making false statements. The U.S. attorney's office says in a release the indictment was returned against 61-year-old James Paul Hunt of Montrose, ...and more »

FISH FACTOR: Shipping 'iceless' salmon; Bristol Bay dollars go nationalAlaskajournal.comNational Maritime Day May 22 marked another maritime benchmark. That's a holiday created by Congress in 1933 to honor America's sea-going industry. It marks the day when the steamship Savannah set sail from Georgia on the first ever transoceanic ...Rea […]

Alaska DispatchAlaska subsistence salmon case draws to a weird close in Bethel courtroomAlaska DispatchWhen Alaska State Troopers caught him, he wasn't just using illegal king salmon gear; he had two, 50-fathom gillnets shackled together to create a mammoth net almost 600-feet-long, or about the length of two football fields. He hadn't quite stretc […]

Alaska DispatchJudge: Salmon run's survival trumps religious rights of Alaska Native fishermenAlaska DispatchThe case has divided villagers, who rely on salmon runs to feed their families, and state officials, who have a duty to manage fish runs for sustainability. Fisherman Yago Evan bailed completely. He told the defense attorney trying to make a reli […]

Penning some revisionist history about Kenai king salmonAlaska DispatchLet us all hope that the scholarship of Emilie Springer, in her doctoral studies of the culture and policy of state fisheries, is better than her research into the history of Kenai River salmon, because the woman posing behind the imprimatur of the ...

The Alaska Salmon BindField and Stream (blog)Three years ago, outdoor writer, photographer, and consummate sportsman Peter Mathiesen left his hometown of St. Louis to start a new life in Alaska. Here's why he made the move, what everyday life is like, and how it feels to have Denali right outside ...

KREM.com (registration)Alaska Salmon Arrives in SeattleKTVA CBS 11 News AlaskaAlaska Air Cargo delivered kings and sockeye that were caught in the Copper River near Cordova. Last year the airline flew more than 19 million pounds of seafood to the Lower 48 and about a million pounds of Copper River salmon. Seattle seafood ...Alaskan salmon imported for annual […]

Alaska Fish Factor: Crustaceans Shells Being Turned into Food PackagingTheFishSite.comAlaska Fish Factor: Laine Welch Laine Welch has been covering news of Alaska's seafood industry for print and broadcast since 1988. She also has worked 'behind the counter' in wholesale and retail seafood businesses in Alaska and Cape Cod, MA.

Alaska's fishing season forges through winter spring weather in MayCapital city weekly"The fishing industry, apart from our processors, is lots of individual, small businesses. If you compare it to mining, which is something Juneau is well known for; we have more employment in the seafood industry than we do in the mining sector. So it ...and more  […]

Waterfall Group Announces New Exclusive Alaska Fishing ResortPR Web (press release)... a level of personalized service rarely found in the sport fishing industry. “Steamboat Bay utilizes the same decades-long admired service model as Waterfall Resort Alaska, stepped up several notches,” said Cara Buswell, Steamboat Bay Resident Manager.and more »

Kevin Adams Named Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute ChairmanPerishableNews (press release)With 38 years of fishing experience in Bristol Bay, Adams has long been an active member in the Alaska fishing industry. He has worked for both the Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation and the Bering Sea Fisherman's Association, and represents ...

A history of CDFU-CAMACordova Times1946 stared the era of increased involvement with mention of a United Western Alaska effort against fish traps and the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc. In 1947, we see a Dungeness crab price of 9 cents per crab, still fighting traps, and union support of ...The Cordova Times - Picnics and politicsThe cordova Timesall 2 news art […]

NOAA Releases Steller Sea Lion Protection Measures for Public CommentAlaska Native NewsThe State of Alaska and several fishing industry groups sued NOAA in the U.S. District Court of the District of Alaska, saying that NOAA Fisheries implemented more protection for Steller sea lions than necessary to comply with the ESA, resulting in ...

Moneycontrol.comGoogle Said to Face New Antitrust Probe Over Display AdsBloombergGoogle Inc. is facing a new antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb competition, people familiar with the matter said. The fresh inquiry ...Google faces new f […]

Highlight PressYou Might Be Surprised at this Year's Top Rated BeachesHighlight Pressbeach Well, you might have come across many beautiful beaches across the country but you surely wouldn't have counted on one beach being the Number 1. What's more difficult to believe is that the beach in question, touted as the best beach in the 2013 ...Jerse […]

Wall Street JournalGoogle to Fund, Develop Wireless Networks in Emerging MarketsWall Street JournalGoogle Inc. is working to build and help run wireless networks in emerging markets such as sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, connecting a billion or more new people to the Internet. WSJ's Amir Efrati reports. (Photo: Getty Images). Google Inc. is deep […]

ValueWalkApple cuts prices on reburbished iPad Mini and iPad 4CNETThose of you eyeing an iPad Mini or fourth-generation iPad can now save a bit more money on refurbished models courtesy of Apple. As of Friday, Apple is offering 15 percent to 17 percent discounts on all flavors of refurbished units of the iPad Mini and the ...Apple Cuts Prices On Refurbished […]

Highlight PressAstrophysicists Peer Back In Time, Measure All the Light in the UniverseHighlight PressUniverse It's difficult to imagine measuring light, as if one could gather it and place in a measuring cup or weigh it on a scale. Alberto Domínguez, a postdoctoral candidate at the University of California, Riverside's Department of Physics and As […]

San Francisco ChroniclePavlof Volcano EruptingCNNCNN PRODUCER NOTE AlaskaOwens flew within about a half mile of the Pavlof volcano in Alaska while doing a location scout on Saturday. He lives in Anchorage and produces outdoor television programs and runs Chugach Powder Sports, a heli-skiiing ...Trace Volcano Ash Reaches Small Alaska CityABC NewsErupting Alas […]

ValueWalkLambda Labs Is Launching A Facial Recognition API For Google GlassTechCrunchLambda Labs, an early-stage startup out of San Francisco, is preparing to release a facial recognition API for developers working on Google Glass apps. The API will be available to interested developers within a week, company co-founder Stephen Balaban ...Google Glass's […]

Voice of AmericaGlow-in-the-dark cockroach among top 10 new species of 2012Los Angeles TimesScientists estimate that there are about 8.7 million species on Earth, give or take 1.3 million. (Some believe that the true figure is even higher.) Of these, perhaps 1.2 million to 2 million have been officially identified -- the rest are still out there, awaiting .. […]

Google Translate says 'Hola!' to ChromeCNETThe latest Chrome beta for Android integrates Google Translate support directly into the browser, just like it does with its desktop counterpart. Seth Rosenblatt. by Seth Rosenblatt. May 24, 2013 12:55 PM PDT Follow @b1g1nj4p4n. Google Translate lands in ...and more »

Times of IndiaHulu Suitors Line UpWall Street JournalYahoo Inc. submitted a bid on Friday to acquire Hulu, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the Internet company tries to add more high-quality online video that can appeal to advertisers. Ignored and scorned by peers for years, but now suddenly ...Hulu draws more biddersLos Angeles TimesHulu […]