Dutch-Harbor News

Ezequiel Canul spends his day in a freezing room breaking down fish. a A sea butcher is the knife artist behind the filet of fish on your plate.

By Dr. PAUL KENGOR Every Veterans Day presents an opportunity to commemorate those who served in some faraway place long ago, many of whom paid that ultimate sacrifice.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew forward deployed in Cold Bay medevaced a 30-year-old crewman with a reported eye injury from the 124-foot fishing vessel Clipper Surprise more than 50 miles north of Dutch Harbor Monday.

Wholesale prices for Bristol Bay red king crab are down 18 percent compared to a year ago, but crab brokers are upbeat over the domestic demand for this succulent seafood.

With unemployment figures in double-digits, Jeff Myers expected to see more seats filled Thursday at the Red Lion Hotel.

The Port of Dutch Harbor is looking for new ways to increase its revenues and attract new business.

'Lost Aleutian Villages' trip goes back in time Published: October 23rd, 2009 01:45 PM Last Modified: October 23rd, 2009 02:24 PM Link: Dutch Harbor Fisherman Elderly former residents of the abandoned Aleutian villages of Makushin and Kashega and descendants of villagers were recently guests of the National Park Service in a return boat trip to the ...

Shell Oil received news on two different drilling plans this week. On Monday, the Minerals Management Service gave Shell conditional approval for their exploration plans for Camden Bay in the Beaufort Sea.

Calm seas and unseasonably warm weather greeted Bering Sea crab fishermen as they embarked on the 2009-10 red king crab season in search of a harvest quota of 16.9 million pounds of king crab.

The United States Geological Service is reporting a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck near Dutch Harbor Alaska at 10:37p.m. Arizona time.

A crew member of the Alaska Ranger is taken on board the Coast Guard Cutter Munro.

The National Transportation Safety Board says it will announce the probable cause of the sinking of the Alaska Ranger at a meeting Wednesday in Washington, D.C. The Seattle-based fish processor went down in March of 2008 in the Bering Sea west of Dutch Harbor.

Link: Dutch Harbor Fisherman Among the passengers delayed from getting to Southwest Alaska and the Aleutians when the Alaska State Ferry Tustumena broke down in Homer recently were two female bison being transported to Sand Point to diversify the gene pool of the Popof Island herd.

Pacific Fishermen Shipyard and Electric, LLC announced that it will now be providing year round marine electrical services in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, as well as the Puget Sound area, maintaining marine electricians on site 24/7. Seattle's PFI Marine Electric shares facilities with Dutch Harbor's Lunde Marine Electronics to provide marine electrical ...

The state ferry Tustumena is back in service after repairs were completed. The ship had a vehicle lift malfunction on Sept.

Smokers in this stormy city in the Aleutian Islands are trying to get the City Council to reverse its ban on lighting up in bars.

Do you travel light or heavy? Light. Cattle or first class? First is my first choice but I never seem to get upgraded.

Unalaska council backs offshore leasing provided MMS protects fisheries, but proposed 2011, '14 sales have ample opponents Wesley Loy For Petroleum News The Unalaska City Council on Sept.

Terry Cook was reported to be swelling in the mouth and throat and when his his condition started to degrade the local clinic requested a non-maritime medevac from the Coast Guard to get Cook to advanced medical care by transporting him to Cold Bay and further medevacing him to Anchorage aboard an awaiting commercial medical flight service.

On September 13, 2009 a flotilla of vessels made their way up the Hudson river to re-create the journey traveled by explorer Henry Hudson 400 years ago.