Unalaska News

Makushin and Scan Bays will not open for Tanner crab fishing this year. The trawl survey showed that the abundance of legal male crabs in that area is the lowest it's been since 2000 and is below the required number for it to be opened.

Plans to establish an emergency housing shelter in downtown Unalaska went down to defeat before the city's planning and zoning commission.

A statewide survey has found the cost-of-living gap has widened between larger cities and remote small communities across rural Alaska.

Pollock fillets are checked for bones and other flaws at the Unisea fish processing plant in Unalaska in this 2005 photo.

The Coast Guard coordinated a rescue of four Alaska fishermen after receiving a mayday call from a crewmember aboard the Juneau based fishing vessel, Carly Renee, reporting they were taking on water and abandoning ship 22 miles east of Unalaska Island at approximately 4:42 p.m Friday.

A 59-foot commercial fishing boat that capsized near Unalaska Island is drifting toward the Gulf of Alaska and attempts to salvage it could begin as early as today, the U.S. Coast Guard says.

The fishermen sent out a mayday call Friday afternoon when they were about 22 miles east of Unalaska Island in the Aleutians.

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

A new study is looking at what quantity of hydrocarbon pollutants, like oil, is entering Unalaska Bay and from where.

'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 ...

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.

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.

"For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska" is a documentary that highlights the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention this week in Anchorage.

The Coast Guard, in partnership with Alaska Department of Fish and Game personnel, are deploying to safeguard the crab fleet departing today for the start of the 2009 - 2010 crabbing season in the Bearing Sea.

The Pratt Museum last month received a $146,000 two-year Museums for America grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Link: Unalaska Advertiser Sgt. Jennifer Shockley of the Unalaska police department entertains us again with this blotter entry from early Sunday: " 1:12 a.m., assault: Officers responded to the galley of a fishing vessel regarding a brawl in which one intoxicated man had somehow fallen overboard.

The Defense Department is defending the Obama Administration's opposition to funding pensions for Alaska Territorial Guard members who served during World War II.

A group is traveling to Unalaska to gather information on local behavioral health and substance abuse treatment services.

The organizer of an effort to reverse Unalaska's smoking ban says at least 300 people in the community of 3,500 have signed a petition seeking to allow people to light up in bars.

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.