AMSEA Blog

Notice of the upcoming Federal Advisory Committee meeting. The National Commercial Fishing Safety Advisory Committee will meet on...

AMSEA's new Executive Director, Dr. Leann Fay, and her research assistant, Mayugiaq Melanie Sagoonick, completed a pilot study of the set...

Alaskans will no longer be getting the weather through their television programming service. The National Weather Service just released a...

The Coast Guard’s National Commercial Fishing Safety Advisory meeting is holding its annual meeting on May 23-25th in Norfolk, Virginia....

Congratulations to the NOAA fisheries observer program for getting 11 new/refreshed marine safety instructors trained last week! AMSEA's...

Emergency satellite devices have never been more reliable, with increased satellites in the sky and devices that reach over 22,000 miles...

The USCG just released its report on the grounding of the Ever Forward back in March 2022. Distracted Driving was to blame in the...

In June 2022, the USCG inspection officers noticed a defect in many of the immersion suits they were examining. There was delamination...

Alaskan and former commercial fishermen, Jennifer Pickett, PhD, wants to know how you feel about working in Alaska's commercial fisheries...

U.S. Coast Guard command center crews in the Northeast states have a new way to locate vessels in distress.

Lovers of the printed NOAA Tide Tables and Tidal Current Tables publications will soon have an empty spot in their hearts and on the...

As the summer salmon season approaches, the State of Alaska has issued its health and safety guidance for commercial fishing vessels, in...

To help you navigate the new operating environment resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, we have published a list online resources for...

We are gratified to receive the support of everyone that supports AMSEA through an annual membership. However, we need to acknowledge a...

The U.S. Coast Guard is giving OCMIs (Officers in Charge, Marine Inspection) the discretion to defer many commercial vessel inspections...

The U.S. Coast Guard issued a Marine Safety Information Bulletin this month, reminding mariners of the hazards when crossing bars in the...

This winter has gotten off to a rough start when it comes to commercial fishing vessel casualties. On December 31, two crew survived and...

It's probably fair to say that the New Year's Eve sinking of the F/V Scandies Rose and loss of five crew has shaken folks up in the...

Pacific Marine Expo 2019 is in Seattle, Washington at CenturyLink Field Event Center, November 21-23 and we'll be there. Be sure to stop...

An ongoing service outage has been affecting U.S. Coast Guard VHF radio stations along much of the coast of the Gulf of Alaska. The...