Updated, 3 p.m. Sunday: The catcher-processor Katie Ann diverted to Unalaska this weekend after a large wave blew out several windows on the vessel's bridge. In the process, about six crew members were injured.

The 295-foot vessel traveled to Unalaska under its own power. The Katie Ann and its crew arrived at the Kloosterboer dock on Saturday afternoon. Unalaska's public safety personnel met them there.

The new Dutch Harbor state-waters Pacific cod fishery will officially open next week. That’s as the federal Pacific cod season comes to a close Tuesday.

The Department of Fish and Game is closing the federal Pacific cod season in the Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands area for catcher vessels under 60 feet fishing with hook-and-line or pot gear. That means the parallel state-waters fishery for boats 58 feet and under fishing with pot gear is also closing. Both fisheries end at noon on Tuesday.

Shell Oil's chief executive announced that the company is giving up on plans to drill in the Arctic this summer during a press conference on Thursday morning.

But the news reached Unalaska several hours before that.

Pete Slaiby, a Shell Alaska executive, called Unalaska mayor Shirley Marquardt at home Wednesday night.

He told her that the company was canceling its Arctic plans.

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For more than 20 years, NIOSH has been working to prevent accidental deaths in the fishing industry. Now, these safety experts are tackling injuries -- the kind fishermen are used to getting every season.

As KUCB's Lauren Rosenthal reports, that might make this a tougher problem to solve.

A federal appeals court has ruled that the environmental assessment behind a massive oil lease sale off Alaska’s northern coast is faulty.

The ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals applies to a Chukchi Sea lease sale from 2008. But it’s cast a pall on the future of Arctic oil exploration.

Erik Grafe is an attorney for EarthJustice. He’s argued the case through several rounds of appeals on behalf of environmental groups, and the Alaska Native communities of Point Hope and the North Slope.

The Department of Public Safety was called to help two injured crew members aboard fishing vessels in Unalaska on Sunday.

A crew member aboard the fishing vessel Starbound was injured after the boat’s crane broke loose from its base and fell off the bow early Sunday morning.

Fire Chief Abner Hoage says the Starbound was offloading fish at the North Pacific Fuel dock when the crane fell.

A crew member was injured during that incident. 

The Bering Sea’s largest fishery has started up again. As of noon on Monday, 1.267 million metric tons of pollock are up for grabs.

A crew member aboard a factory processor has been arrested in Unalaska and accused of stealing another man’s identity to get his commercial fishing license. 

Federal regulators still don't have enough detail on Shell Oil's latest Arctic drilling plans to judge whether the company is ready to proceed this summer.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management went to Shell on Tuesday seeking more information about the company's operating and exploration plans for the Chukchi Sea. This is the second time that BOEM has come back with questions since Shell's initial filing in November.