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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 ...

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 ...

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 […]

Manila Standard TodayAlaska Aces win with integrityManila Standard TodayThe Alaska Aces won the 2013 Philippine Basketball Association Commissioner's Cup by competing with integrity. The Aces grabbed their 14th PBA title, making them third overall with the most titles in the league, but only the first since the 2010 PBA ...and more »

Alaska recreational boating deaths up in '12Anchorage Daily NewsAlaska's fatality rate of 43.9 deaths per 100,000 registered recreational boats compares to the overall national rate of 5.4 last year, according to U.S. Coast Guard statistics published Monday. The states with the next highest fatality rates were ...and more »

Belly boat fishing can be pure pleasurePioneer PressMiesen and Munchow flipper off, and soon they're casting over different spots -- and battling their own bucketmouths. This is fishing from a float tube, known to some as a belly boat. For as little as $100, one can purchase a new float tube and hit a ...

Why Manila stopped giving Taiwanese fishing vessels a 'safety corridor'ABS CBN News (blog)“Taiwan's fishing fleet has a reputation as voracious, and in this incident the Philippines said its coastguard was acting against illegal fishing; it opened fire to disable the engine of a Taiwanese vessel after it tried to ram a Philippine cutter ...Tai […]

NPHS grad riding to Alaska for autismMontgomery NewspapersMay 29, Wittmer will leave his home in Lansdale on his 2000 Triumph Sprint RS motorcycle, packed with gear and supplies, and will arrive in Juneau, Alaska, eight days later. His final destination will be farther than that — Vancouver, British Columbia.

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 » […]

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.and more »

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 ...

New York TimesApple 1 breaks auction record, goes for $671,...CNETOne of what's thought to be only six working Apple 1 computers -- hand-built by Steve Wozniak -- flies out of a German auction house for a tidy sum. The last one went for $640,000. Edward Moyer. by Edward Moyer. May 25, 2013 9:26 AM PDT Follow @ ...This Apple-1 Is the Most Expensive Apple […]

Detection of the cosmic gamma ray horizon: Measures all the light in the ...Eureka! Science NewsNina McCurdy and Joel R. Primack/UC-HiPACC; Blazar: Frame from a conceptual animation of 3C 120 created by Wolfgang Steffen/UNAM. How much light has been emitted by all galaxies since the cosmos began? After all, almost every photon (particle of ...and more »

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 […]

National GeographicSkywatcher's Guide: Eye-Catching Triple Planet HuddleNational GeographicThis weekend, skywatchers around the world will get to see a striking triple planetary meetup in the evening skies the likes of which won't be repeated until 2026. From May 24 to 27, Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter will appear to converge in the low northwest sky […]

ValueWalkApple Inc. (AAPL) Lowers Prices On Refurbished iPad 4 and iPad MiniValueWalkTo help boost sales on refurbished tablets, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has lowered the prices of the refurbished iPad 4 and iPad Mini tablets. This price cut is valid on Apple's online store. They are offering 15 to 17 percent discounts on all types of iPad 4 and ...Apple […]

NDTVGoogle Now's "Topics" Page Returns And Shows You How Much Google Knows ...TechCrunchA few weeks ago, Google briefly made a “Google Now” topics page available on the web and then took it down again. The page showed a list of topics Google believed you were interested in, based on your search history. Now this feature is back, but it's […]

Popular ScienceLambda 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 […]

Boston GlobeFTC Is Said to Begin a New Inquiry on GoogleNew York TimesWASHINGTON — Google's rivals have again prompted antitrust investigators at the Federal Trade Commission to examine the company's business practices, and staff members have begun a preliminary look at whether Google abuses its market dominance ...Google Said to Face New Antitrust […]

Coolest Gadget ReviewsMicrosoft knuckles under, yanks YouTube app for Windows PhoneComputerworldComputerworld - Microsoft has bowed to pressure from Google and pulled the YouTube app from its Windows Phone Store that earlier this month triggered a cease-and-desist letter from the search giant. The two companies will instead collaborate on a ...Microsoft and […]

Latinos PostVolcanic Eruption in Alaska Causes Flight Cancellations, Ash Covers TownsLatinos PostA volcanic eruption in Alaska is causing flight delays and traces of volcanic ash to fall on nearby communities as a plume of ash reaches 22,000 feet. Pavlof Volcano erupted last weekend, with volcanic tremors continuing well into Monday. Sand Point and ...Trace […]