...harvested 283,404 pounds, according to Fish and Game. The new PSP procedures have brought management changes, said Marc Pritchett, a dive fisheries biologist with Fish and Game. Using the up-front PSP information, the department will open...

...individual fishing quota system would be easier to control, but the geoduck divers would have to take the lead, said Marc Pritchett, fisheries biologist for the Department of Fish and Game. Alaskan geoducks also have to wait for the results of...

...24 percent lower than the 2005-2006 season. The reason for the drop in sea cucumbers isn't known. Biologist Marc Pritchett says there's an assumption that it's connected to sea otter predation.

...stretched out, and missing much of its skeleton!" "People just don't even know these critters exist," said Marc Pritchett of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, manager of what the department calls its "miscellaneous dive fisheries...