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Held up by Sealife aquarist Jemma Battric, Claude weighs a mighty 15lbs and measures 15 inches wide – when he is fully grown he will weigh a whopping 30lbs and gain an extra three inches.Daily Mail photo Coming up this week, the trawlers in the Gulf will see a 15 percent reduction in allowable halibut bycatch; to err is human, …

Jay Barrett/KMXT There was a huge effort by commercial and charter fishermen from one end of the Gulf of Alaska to another to convince the North Pacific Fishery Management Council that bycatch of halibut needed to be reduced. Alaska Marine Conservation Council Kodiak Outreach Coordinator Theresa Peterson – who is also a commercial fisherman with halibut quota – says the …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The North Pacific Fishery Management Council voted Friday to reduce halibut bycatch in the Gulf of Alaska by 15 percent, the maximum amount under consideration during its meeting here in Kodiak. The cuts to the trawl and longline fleets will be phased in over three years. The reduction passed on a 10-1 vote, with Dave Benson of Washington …

Coming up this week: Ocean Beauty says damage to its Petersburg dock will force them to pack salmon elsewhere this summer; the North Pacific council is meeting right now in Kodiak, and halibut bycatch is at the top of the menu. All that, and yes, boats still hit icebergs and they still sink, 100 years after the Titanic. We had …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Reduction to halibut bycatch in the trawl and hook-and-line Pacific cod fisheries of the Gulf of Alaska will be a hot topic at the North Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting this week in Kodiak. Currently, there are approximately 5-million pounds of inadvertently-caught halibut tossed overboard each year. The options before the council are cuts to that number of …

Coming up this week, outlook, outlook, outlook, recap. Also, the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council is headed towards Kodiak, and a Fairbanks professor wants to know what fishermen think of their careers and community. We had help this week from KDLG’s Mike Mason in Dillingham, and KNOM’s Ben Matheson in Nome. Here’s the outlook for the NPFMC’s upcoming meetings: npfmc_three_meeting_outlook