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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 ...

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 ...

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 […]

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 ...

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 ...

Memorial Day BBQ: Grilled Honey Chipotle Salmon KabobsFox News Latino4. Preheat grill. 5. Add vegetables to marinated salmon and mix gently. 6. Arrange salmon and vegetables on skewers and grill over medium to low heat for approximately 5-6 minutes on each side. 7. Serve over grilled asparagus or a bed of greens. Serves 4.

SnagFilms Named a Top 100 Tech CompanyIndie WireFrom a pool of more than 1,000 candidates, Red Herring's editorial staff selected the winning companies on 20 different quantitative and qualitative criteria such as financial performance, technology innovation, management quality, strategy and market ...SnagFilms Wins 2013 Red Herring Top 100 North Americ […]

Salmon abu-ramen at downtown Portland's Shigezo: Ramen HuntOregonLive.comThis week, I was sold on a salmon abu-ramen. Similar to the tsukemen style I wrote about last month, noodles in an abu-ramen come without broth. The main difference is, unlike tsukemen, where broth and toppings are brought in a separate dipping bowl, ...and more »

Anchorage Daily NewsSustainable Fishing Exhibit Makes Debut on World Oceans Day – June 8Anchorage Daily NewsSeward, AK – May 20, 2013 – A new exhibit will open on June 8 at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward. The exhibit, a 21-foot fishing boat which sits within a harbor scene, will highlight the importance and successes of sustainably managing Alaska' […]

NewsNet5.comDistrict Fishing Report: 5.24.13Pittsburgh Post GazetteOn that day residents and non-residents can legally fish with no fishing license required on all of the state's waterways. All other fishing regulations and private property laws still apply. Karen Gainey, fishing instructor at the Community College of ...Northeast Ohio fishing report: W […]

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 ...

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.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 ...

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 […]

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 ...Used computer $116000: Original Apple […]

The GuardianGoogle advertising under investigation in USThe GuardianThe US federal trade commission is investigating whether Google's DoubleClick advertising subsidiary has illegally pushed customers to buy its other products, the Guardian has established. The regulator is understood to be looking at whether the display ...FTC Said to Have Begun New Inq […]

Windows 8: Consumers Not Warming To InterfaceInformationWeekWindows 8's look and feel is still a flop with consumers, especially with those who don't use tablets, two studies say. Start The Discussion · Tweet; Mail Mail; Print Print · Michael Endler | May 22, 2013 11:28 AM. Windows Blue (click image for larger view and ...and more »

HaaretzBiz Break: Are Google and Yahoo about to make big purchases?San Jose Mercury NewsToday: As rumors fly that Google (GOOG) is entering a bidding war with Facebook over traffic mapping app Waze, new reports surface that Yahoo (YHOO) has entered bidding for streaming video service Hulu. Also, HP shares fall back to earth, and Netflix ...Google Said to Con […]

WKMG OrlandoAT&T to Make Millions Thanks to New 'Administrative Fee'Tom's GuideIt might not seem like much, just a measly sixty-one cents a month, but AT&T is apparently going to make a killing with its new administrative fee. The company tacked this $0.61 fee onto customers' wireless bills effective May 1, 2013, and calls it a […]

Nature World NewsScientists Measure All the Light in the Universe Going Back 5 Billion YearsNature World NewsBy measuring the absorption of very high-energy gamma rays by supermassive black holes located in the centers of galaxies, called blazars, researchers have been able to measure the evolution of the EBL of the last 5 billion years indirectly, according […]

Chrome for Android automatically translates the web in latest betaThe VergeGoogle Translate is coming to Chrome on Android. The Chrome Beta Android app was updated Thursday with a new feature that can automatically translate webpages into different languages. On a phone or tablet, the feature works a lot like the translation ...and more »

NPRRing Nebula's true shape revealed: A distorted jelly doughnutLos Angeles TimesLooks can be deceiving, especially when it comes to nebulae. From here on Earth, the well-studied Ring Nebula looks like a fiery, slightly misshapen ring with fuzzy edges and a hole in its center. But using data collected from the Hubble Telescope, and ...Astronomers determ […]

Latinos PostWhat Might Jony Ive's Flat iOS 7 Look Like?Latinos Post(Photo : ANTON KOVALEV/Behance). If 9to5Mac's usually reliable sources are correct, the persistent rumors that Apple's new version of iOS will be fundamentally redesigned to have a "flat" look are correct. Like Us on Facebook. Today, the Apple-centric tech ...iOS 7 Un […]