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Long-running forum spotlights Alaska’s marine policy

By Tom Moran | January 14, 2026

A cutout of the state of Alaska with a water design and the Big Dipper and North Star inside it. Below it reads "Alaska Marine Policy Forum."

The Alaska Marine Policy Forum is a Zoom call that’s older than Zoom itself. But over its 17-year history, the venerable event has maintained the same goal: to enable Alaskans…

Bristol Bay residents learn to advocate for fisheries issues

By Sue Keller | April 12, 2018

A course called “Fisheries and the Legislative Process” is teaching Alaskans from the Bristol Bay region how to be advocates in the state capital. Each January a group of Bristol Bay students of all ages travels to Juneau for a week, where they learn the lawmaking process and how decisions are made that affect their communities.