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This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: It’s the third visit to the October meeting of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, in which codfish are divided. Photo: Maggie Nelson, KUCB

This Week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Heat Wave that Crashed Cod, plus Sage Smiley Reports on Trawl Bycatch

The Alaska Board of Fisheries handled more than just salmon issues while in Kodiak for its finfish meeting last month. Today we look at some groundfish issues, and on Wednesday we’ll look at sports fishing regulation changes.   While the recent Board of Fisheries meeting held in Kodiak centered on salmon, the fish board addressed a number of other issues, …

Fishing boats resting in a Kodiak harbor. ( Photo by James Brooks/flicker) Mitch Borden/KMXT The Kodiak State-Waters Pacific Cod Pot Gear Season didn’t go well this year. It was open longer than normal and for the first time in its history didn’t meet its target harvest. Nat Nichols is the Alaska Department of Fish and Game area manager for groundfish …

Kayla  Desroches/KMXT The race for fish continues to be a concern for Kodiak’s pollock, cod, rockfish, and flatfish trawl fisheries moving into the coming season, especially with the quickly rising numbers of Chinook bycatch. That’s according to Alaska Groundfish Data Bank Executive Director Julie Bonney, who gave a fishery update to the city and borough’s joint fisheries work group Wednesday …