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MCA is an Alaska non-profit organization formed by conservation minded Alaska and North Pacific coastal residents, communities,fixed and mobile gear fishermen, vessel owners and crew, processors, fishing organizations, support industries, western Alaska Community Development Quota (CDQ) organizations, consumers, and others who are directly and indirectly involved in the North Pacific (Alaska) groundfish fisheries.

MCA Speaks Out: MCA Comments on Steller Sea Lion Scoping for SEIS (4/21/08) NEW

Press Release:
MCA Supports Scientific Approach to Setting Catch Levels
(12/10/07)



MCA executive director Dave Benton presents a $2,000 check to MAP Community Development Specialist Paula Cullenberg while MAP agents Sunny Rice of Petersburg (L) and Torie Baker of Cordova (R) look on.

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Unalaska, Photo courtesy of Debra Mack

 

Press Releases

Bycatch Reduction, Marine Debris addressed by MCA at the American Fisheries Society in Ottawa (8/14/08) NEW
Fishery Review Provisions Enhance Environmental Analysis and Strengthen Public Participation, MCA Says (8/11/08) NEW
MCA Supports Scientific Approach to Setting Catch Levels (12/10/07)
MCA Renews Support for Young Fishermen’s Summit Check Presented for December Summit in Anchorage (10/9/07)
International Agreement to Protect Arctic Fisheries (10/22/07)

MCA in the News

Bering Sea salmon bycatch is dropping (8/31/08) NEW
Film crew features Kodiak for ecological fisheries program (Kodiak Daily Mirror, 7/7/08)
Preserving Arctic Fisheries Before Harvesting Them (Scientific American, 4/29/08)

MCA Speaks Out

MCA Submits Comments on Proposed MSA-NEPA Rule (8/11/08) NEW
An oceans bill that reaches into the breadbasket (6/9/08)
Marine Protected Area (MPA) Revised Draft Framework Comments (5/15/08)
MCA Comments on Steller Sea Lion Scoping for SEIS (4/21/08)


   
 

Trawl Net Recycling/Free & Low Cost Options (8/08)

FISH RADIO
with Laine Welch
   
MCA Currents Newsletter
(May 2008) NEW

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