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Coming up this week, though it’s too late for this season, a group has stepped up to get Alaska’s largest salmon packers back under MSC certification; and biologists are starting to reduce forecasts for Bristol Bay on the weak returns, all that and more coming up on the Alaska Fisheries Report. We had help from KDLG’s Molly Dischner in Dillingham, …

Coming up this week it’s all about the salmon. From Southeast through Cook Inlet, Bristol Bay and up the Yukon, it’s all about the salmon. We had help for this week’s Independence Day edition of the Alaska Fisheries Report from KDLG’s Molly Dischner in Dillingham, KCAW’s Rachel Waldholz in Sitka, KNOM’s Matthew Smith in Nome and KBBI’s Quinton Chandler in …

Coming up this week, salmon fishermen have their nets in the waters on the Nushagak, but in Southeast the summer chinook troll season is in doubt, and we meet the new voice of the Bristol Bay Fisheries Report. All that, and Haines fishermen don’t care if you paint dolphins on it, they just want a bigger harbor. We had help …

  Coming up this week, fishermen all across Bristol Bay are gearing up for what is appearing to be a big run, a Valdez cannery has agreed to a small fine for discharge violations, and some relief for small-boat fishermen when it comes to carrying observers – maybe in three years. We had help from KCHU’s Marcia Lynn in Valdez, …

Coming up this week, fishermen from all sides of the issue went to Sitka angry but hopeful about halibut bycatch reductions in the Bering Sea and they left angry and disappointed; and, I wonder if anyone will write poetry about Astoria’s mechanical killer whale that sank before it was able to scare sea lions on the harbor floats? All coming …

Kodiak Senator Gary has been in the Alaska Legislature for over a decade and has never seen a financial morass such as the one that faces Alaska today. In this Talk of the Rock interview he expresses his optimism that the House and the Senate will agree on a budget that will avoid a shutdown of state government at the …

Coming up this week, it’s an interesting time to be in Sitka, as the North Pacific Council gets set to vote on Bering Sea halibut bycatch reductions; meanwhile, the state of Alaska is fixin’ to shut down if the legislature can’t agree on a budget – we’ll find out what that means for Fish and Game and our commercial fisheries; …

Coming up this week, the Marine Stewardship Council is optimistic the big salmon packers will be welcomed back into the fold, but will it be in time for this year’s catch to be certified? A ship most fishermen never wanted to see will soon be going to the bottom itself, and good news: there was crab at Crab Fest this …

Coming up this week, a look at salmon fry heading out to sea, learning where salmon come from by looking in their ears, and Petersburg’s new dock gets dedicated. We had help from KFSK’s Joe Viechnicki in Petersburg, KTOO’s Matt Miller in Juneau and KDLG’s Hanna Colton in Dillingham.  

Today on Talk of the Rock, Host Kayla Desroches talks with Stephanie DeLaGarza about Crab Fest. DeLaGarza works with the Kodiak Chamber of Commerce and has been integral in organizing the famous Kodiak festival. They’ll chat about rides, food, and the list of activities on the schedule.