The Highliner

Commercial fishing is a bedrock industry in Alaska, and has been for more than a century. Every year scores of fishermen net millions of migrating salmon, challenge the icy Bering Sea to trap king crabs, lay miles and miles of baited hooks for halibut, and scoop up enough pollock for a zillion fish sticks. And when fishermen aren't out fishing, they're usually talking about fishing. That's what this blog is all about. Cast your net here for commercial fishing news and notes. And if you've got a bone to pick, post a comment.

About me:
I've pounded the commercial fishing beat for the Anchorage Daily News since 1999. I hail originally from Tennessee. I've never fished commercially, but I've spent much time as a journalist aboard boats and inside fish-processing plants. Of course, I'm a big consumer of Alaska seafood. One of my favorites: canned sockeye.

Contact Wesley Loy at wloy@adn.com.


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Bristol Bay bounty - 7/13/2008 11:59 pm

Madsen questioned, defended - 7/10/2008 11:10 pm

Palin wants more processor competition in Bristol Bay - 7/8/2008 12:15 am

Sockeye – and anger – fill Bristol Bay - 7/3/2008 3:44 pm

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Palin returns Bundrant, Wallace to ASMI board - 7/2/2008 4:44 pm

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Here come the scallops! - 7/2/2008 11:21 am

Palin to Exxon: Pay up now - 7/1/2008 10:30 pm

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Hogarth to leave NMFS

Posted by The Highliner

Posted: November 20, 2007 - 11:28 am

Bill Hogarth is leaving as head of the National Marine Fisheries Service to take a university job in Florida.

Here’s the official announcement:

Message from the Under Secretary

November 20, 2007

Today the University of South Florida is announcing that Dr. William Hogarth, NOAA’s Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, will become Interim Dean for the College of Marine Science, effective January 15, 2008. Bill had earlier informed me about his intention to accept the position and his plans to leave NOAA at the end of the year.

After a distinguished career with the State of North Carolina as Director of the Marine Fisheries Program, Bill joined NOAA Fisheries in 1994. He was serving as Deputy Assistant Administrator when, in 2001, he was asked to serve as the Assistant Administrator for Fisheries for President Bush.

He has done an outstanding job leading NOAA’s domestic and international living marine resource programs. His management skills and his keen instincts have helped NOAA navigate some rough waters as he has adeptly handled the sensitive issues in his portfolio.

Among Bill’s many accomplishments is the renewal of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, with its commitment to end the overfishing that threatens livelihoods and a major food source. This year Bill obtained the subsistence bowhead whale quota for the Alaskan tribal community at the International Whaling Commission meeting. He has been at the forefront of the Administration’s drive to enact aquaculture legislation that will boost that beneficial industry in the United States. We will miss him, but we wish him the best in his new assignment at the University. Please join me in thanking Bill for his outstanding and dedicated leadership.

Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr.
Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator


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