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 by Wesley Loy has been all about for the two years he has written it.


Archive

Last set - 4/10/2009 7:36 pm

Seeking a PFD fishermen will actually wear - 4/10/2009 7:28 pm

Advice for mariculture: Grow West - 4/10/2009 7:26 pm

Anti-Pebble pitch to Anglo American - 4/10/2009 7:19 pm

Safety issues send two boats back to Hoonah - 4/9/2009 5:35 pm

Palin’s board pick draws fire - 4/2/2009 10:46 am

Cook Inlet fisherman named to board - 4/1/2009 4:51 pm

Wrangell deal back on? - 3/31/2009 9:56 am

Palin picks Grussendorf for Senate seat - 3/29/2009 11:51 pm

Herring fishermen next up for Exxon money - 3/27/2009 7:17 pm

More trouble for Wrangell Seafoods - 3/27/2009 2:41 pm

The herring are here! - 3/26/2009 10:42 am

‘Trident hereby terminates’ Wrangell deal - 3/24/2009 5:02 pm

Crewman hurt on American Seafoods trawler - 3/24/2009 2:30 am

State House passes cod resolution - 3/23/2009 1:40 pm

Update on the Early Dawn - 3/22/2009 2:13 pm

‘Deadliest Catch’ crabber needs rescue - 3/22/2009 2:32 am

It's halibut time - 3/21/2009 4:12 pm

Is Trident's Wrangell deal dead? - 3/20/2009 1:14 am

Dry ice - 3/19/2009 5:16 pm

Bite this! - 3/18/2009 2:49 pm

175 million salmon expected this year - 3/17/2009 4:10 pm

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Last set

Posted by highliner

Posted: April 10, 2009 - 7:36 pm

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From Wesley Loy in Anchorage --

Friends, this is my final post to The Highliner, a blog we launched on March 2, 2007, to cover Alaska's commercial fishing scene.

It's been one of the most exciting things I've done in my more than two decades in journalism.

You've surely heard the news business is in tough shape, shedding lots of people.

I was offered a buyout recently and accepted it.

So I'm gone.

But wait! I intend to keep blogging about Alaska commercial fisheries, a subject that truly has me hooked.

Catch my new blog at http://deckboss.blogspot.com.

For now, thanks for reading me on The Highliner. You loyal visitors really made it go.

-- Wesley Loy


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