Companies must demonstrate they are unable to fill processing jobs with American workers, and then through the temporary H-2B visa program, they hire thousands of guest workers to meet the needs of Alaska’s labor-intensive, high-volume commercial fishing seasons.

The buoys are cited as examples of how the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its National Weather Service are important to Alaska.

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s mass layoffs of thousands of workers were unlawful.

The company will reduce its operations immediately and says that if China’s lumber ban lasts much longer, the site will close permanently.

Researchers estimate 22% to 38% of observers are victimized each year. Women are twice as likely to experience some form of harassment, intimidation or sexual assault.

A system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more profitable. But over the last 50 years, it has hollowed out many Indigenous coastal villages where residents no longer can earn a living by harvesting salmon.