Sunday, July 5, 2026

Two more Bristol Bay fishermen cited

From the Alaska State Troopers:

Location: Egegik Bay
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 7/1/26 Caleb Jordan Johnson, 41, from College Place, Wash., and Nikita Sergeevich Lutoshkin, 25, from Little Falls, Minn., were cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in a closed period in Egegik Bay.

Saturday, July 4, 2026

Bristol Bay fishermen cited on variety of charges

From the Alaska State Troopers:

Location: Nushagak District
Type: Failure to report lost net
On 6/30/26 Steffen Refvik, 27, from Anchorage, and Brandon Anderson, 31, from Wasilla, were cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for failure to report a lost net in the Nushagak District.

Location: Nushagak District
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 6/29/26 Ivan Basargin, 36, from Homer, was cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters in the Nushagak District.

Location: Egegik District
Type: Gillnet overlength
On 6/29/26 Naomi Lynn Veal, 44, from Nikiski, was cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for gillnet overlength in the Egegik District.

Location: Nushagak District
Type: Commercial fish closed period, waste of salmon
On 6/27/26 Brian Dierich, 53, and Ty Anderson, 47, both from Kodiak, were cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing during a closed period and waste of salmon in the Nushagak District.

Location: Egegik Bay
Type: Commercial fish closed period
On 6/27/26 Logan Jungkuntz, 31, from Seattle, was cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing during a closed period in Egegik Bay.

Location: Nushagak District
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 6/27/26 Natasha Mann, 46, from Shoreline, Wash., was cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters in the Nushagak District.

Location: Nushagak District
Type: Commercial fish closed period
On 6/27/26 Andrey Martushev, 45, from Homer, was cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing during a closed period in the Nushagak District.

Friday, July 3, 2026

Troopers cite a few more Bristol Bay fishermen

From the Alaska State Troopers:

Location: Nushagak District
Type: Commercial fish closed period
On 7/1/26 Joseph Sukalski, 27, from Naknek, and Michael Gibbs, 38, from Anchorage, were cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing during a closed period in the Nushagak District.

Location: Nushagak District
Type: Commercial fish closed waters and vessel ID
On 6/30/26 Filimon Basargin, 46, and Miron Basargin, 18, both from Homer, were cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for commercial fish in closed waters and vessel identification in the Nushagak District.

Location: South line, Egegik District
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 6/26/26 Justin Charles Ridley, 29, from Bellingham, Wash., was cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters on the south line, in the Egegik District.

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Three more Bristol Bay fishermen cited

From the Alaska State Troopers:

Location: Egegik District
Type: Driftnet too close to setnet
On 6/26/26 Ace Charles Keim, 45, and Ian Michael Keim, 22, both from Anchorage, were cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for drift gillnet too close to setnet in the Egegik District.

Location: Egegik District
Type: Grounding
On 6/26/26 Dylan Kenneth Dunsmore, 39, from Bellingham, Wash., was cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for grounding prohibited in the Egegik District.

Monday, June 29, 2026

Two Bristol Bay fishermen cited

From the Alaska State Troopers:

Location: Egegik Bay
Type: Commercial fish closed period
On 6/25/26 Kevin James Wilson, 40, from Bainbridge, Wash., and Sylvie Anna Kaul-Anderson, 31, from Bellingham, Wash., were cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in a closed period in Egegik Bay.

Saturday, May 9, 2026

Feds detail recent enforcement actions

NOAA's Office of General Counsel reports the following cases charged in February:

• F/V Baranof — Crewman Jamar Strain was charged under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act with intimidating, sexually harassing, harassing and interfering with an observer onboard a vessel. A $9,500 NOVA (notice of violation and assessment) was issued.

• F/V Tsiu — Owner Bae Olney-Miller, operator and IFQ permit holder Dane C. Tebo, and IFQ permit holder Loren Lensegrav were charged jointly and severally under the Magnuson-Stevens Act with fishing with bottom contact gear in a Gulf of Alaska coral habitat protection area. Olney-Miller and Tebo also were charged with failing to retrieve and remove longline pot gear within five days of deploying the gear to fish IFQ sablefish in the Southeast Outside District of the Gulf of Alaska as required and submitting inaccurate information on an Alaska Department of Fish and Game fish ticket. A $12,542 NOVA was issued.

• F/V Sea Racer — Owner-operator Varnavy N. Basargin was charged under the Magnuson-Stevens Act with fishing for groundfish in the Gulf of Alaska without a valid federal fisheries permit, inaccurately reporting statistical areas fished, and failing to put the proper markings on marker buoys. A $10,250 NOVA was issued.

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Another case of undersized king crab in Petersburg

From the Alaska State Troopers:

Location: Petersburg
Type: Undersized king crab
On 3/24/26 at approximately 1000 hours, Alaska Wildlife Troopers conducted an offload inspection of golden king crab at Silver Bay Seafoods in Petersburg. F/V Ocean Summer offloaded a total of 91 golden king crab. Through investigation, six of the crabs offloaded were undersized. A mandatory court citation was issued to the permit holder.