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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 ...

LEE HORTON'S OUTDOORS COLUMN: Sekiu open to halibutPeninsula DailyEspecially during this month, due to what Brian Menkal of Brian's Sporting Goods and More (360-683-1950) in Sequim calls the “short and fierce” halibut season. “There are such little windows, and so wise anglers take advantage of them,” Menkal said.Holiday weekend perfect for fishing […]

Valdez Halibut Derby already reeling in big fishFairbanks Daily News-MinerFAIRBANKS — The summer-long Valdez Halibut Derby started Saturday, and there's already a respectable-sized fish on the leader board. Justin Hoppe, of Valdez, reeled in a 97-pound halibut on Sunday to take the early lead in the summer-long derby.Fishing, like the weather, is defini […]

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pilots in Fatal Alaska Crash on Different SignalsABC NewsThe pilots involved in a deadly 2011 midair collision in Alaska apparently were communicating on different radio frequencies before the crash, according to a report by the National Transportation Safety Board, a finding that local aviators say ...and more »

Alaska DispatchCompass: Alaska's oil comeback is under wayAnchorage Daily NewsRather than simply trying to stem the decline, with SB 21 passed, companies are now setting their sights on reversing Alaska's production decline and increasing oil production in Alaska. Brooks Range Petroleum, a smaller Alaska-based company, has said ...Industry-backed g […]

Washington TimesSarah Palin Alaska Senate Whispers Met With Doubt By Lisa MurkowskiHuffington PostWhile Palin comments frequently on the political topics of the day, her interest in returning to a career in elected politics -- especially in Alaska -- has long been questioned. Since losing the 2008 election and months later resigning her ...TV tonight: Sarah […]

Keisel Teams Up With Children's Hospital For VIP Fishing TripCBS LocalAlthough the fishing wasn't the most successful, Keisel says he had a great time. This year, in addition to four lucky contest winners, four patients from Children's Hospital will enjoy the day. Don's Appliances and Hillmon Appliance have joined on as ...

NewsdayFishing red hot going into holiday weekendMyCentralJersey.com“I've never seen it as good this early with so many big fish,” said Ronny Bala from Fisherman's Supply in Point Pleasant Beach about the Manasquan River fishing. Bala said John Szabo scooped up a 7-pound fluke, the biggest fish he heard of caught in ...Fishing action hot all around […]

Anchorage Daily NewsAlaska Rep. Don Young, gone hunting in Africa, misses subcommittee oil hearingMiamiHerald.comWASHINGTON -- When a key House of Representatives panel took up a bill this week that would require annual lease sales and streamline permitting in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, home state Rep. Don Young missed the session. He was on a .. […]

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 to decide Alaska Native religious defense in fishing trialsAlaska DispatchAkiak fisherman Sammy Jackson, who was cited for fishing for king salmon during a Kuskokwim River closure last summer, spoke out against the over-regulation of subsistence fishing during the Alaska Federation of Natives convention in October.Judge's Decision C […]

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 ...

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 […]

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 ...

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  […]

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 ...

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 »

Movers & Shakers 05/26/13Alaskajournal.comHer research includes working with the fishing industry to minimize interactions between sperm and killer whales and Alaska longline fisheries. Straley has been with the UAS Sitka Campus since 1994, and also serves as associated faculty with UAF.

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 ...

IBNLiveGoogle Said to Consider Buying Waze Presaging Bidding WarBloombergGoogle Inc. (GOOG), maker of the Android operating system, is considering buying map-software provider Waze Inc., setting up a possible bidding war with Facebook Inc., people familiar with the matter said. Waze is fielding expressions of interest from ...Report: Google looking to outbid […]

Telegraph.co.ukGoogle Said to Face New Antitrust Probe Over Display AdsBloombergGoogle Inc. (GOOG) 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 ...FTC Investigating Go […]

New York TimesUsed Computer, $116000 or Best OfferNew York TimesMore than a decade ago, at a vintage computer fair in Silicon Valley, Dag Spicer had an opportunity to buy an original Apple-1 for $2,000. He passed. Any regrets? Not really, he said. Bits · More Tech Coverage. News from the technology industry, including ...Apple I, handmade in 1976 and still w […]

Economic TimesITC says Microsoft did not violate Google patentReutersWASHINGTON | Thu May 23, 2013 6:48pm EDT. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp won a round in a complex patent war on Thursday when the International Trade Commission said the company's popular Xbox entertainment system did not violate a ...Microsoft's Xbox Not Blocked From US in […]

The Space ReporterScientists: Arctic bacteria discovered on Earth may prove life could thrive on MarsThe Space ReporterScientists say a newly discovered form of life founding living in subzero temperatures of –15 Celsius may resemble life living underground on Mars. Bacteria found living in the permafrost of the High Arctic seem to thrive in an environment l […]

Zee NewsRing Nebula revealed to be complex space donut; It may provide future glimpse ...Science RecorderThe Ring Nebula, a frequent target for astronomers, is back in the news. According to a newly published report, images obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are shedding light on how the nebula came to be and how it is evolving over time.Hubble […]

Telegraph.co.ukMicrosoft details how Xbox One cloud servers will tackle processor-intensive ...EngadgetOne of the Xbox launch's big reveals was that Microsoft added 300,000 servers to Xbox Live, and now GM Matt Booty has detailed to Ars Technica how that'll improve game play. He said the improved cloud architecture will speed up GPU- or CPU-heavy . […]

ABC NewsGoogle conquers cartography again with faster, cleaner, smarter MapsDigital TrendsAfter the third or fourth missed turn on a solo motorcycle trip through Pennsylvania's Pocono mountains, I realized Google Maps had screwed me. With no GPS or smartphone, I was relying on a crumpled up sheet of printed directions from Google Maps taped ...Google Ma […]

KATUStudy: Number of frogs, toads declining at alarming rateDenver PostA Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog (Rana scans the landscape in Yosemite National Park. (Provided by USGS). Frogs, toads and other amphibians are vanishing so fast nationwide that if the decline continues at the same rate, they'll be gone from half their ...Amphibians dying off at al […]

Two-factor authentication: What you need to knowCNETTwitter just got it. Apple recently got it, too. Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon have had it for a while. But why's two-factor authentication important, and will it keep you safe? Seth Rosenblatt. by Seth Rosenblatt. May 23, 2013 5:29 PM PDT Follow @ ...Twitter's Two-Factor Authentication […]