Tag Archives: Nat Nichols

Fishing pots. (Photo byant55y76 / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT Earlier this month, the state-waters Pacific cod pot gear season closed for big boats in the Kodiak area. Alaska Department of Fish and Game area management biologist Nat Nichols says there’s a provision that if the larger vessels catch 50 percent of the guideline harvest level for the pot cod fishery, they’re …

Tanner crab. (Photo by Paul Quesnell / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The tanner crab fishery wrapped up last week. Nat Nichols, Alaska Department of Fish and Game area management biologist for the Groundfish, Shellfish & Dive Fisheries, says the opening lasted roughly four days, which is about what they expected. And as far participation goes, he says a total of 55 …

On today’s Talk of the Rock, we chat about the recent tanner crab opening with Nat Nichols from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. He’ll give a retrospective on the tanner crab fishery, which opened this year for the first time in Kodiak since 2013.

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Recently, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council decided to decrease the Pacific cod quota by 80 percent due to declines in cod numbers. Fishermen are looking at a less promising season than in previous years, but the federal cod fisheries still opened for the new year. KMXT took the opportunity to find out about some fishery basics. We …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Representatives from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game gave a brief overview of the upcoming commercial Tanner crab season to an audience of two at a recent informational meeting. This year will be the first time the Tanner crab season has opened in Kodiak since 2013. At the meeting, ADF & G area management biologist Nat Nichols …

Tanner crab. (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia) Kayla Desroches/KMXT This year will be the first opening for Tanner crab the Kodiak management area has seen in a few years. Nat Nichols, Alaska Department of Fish and Game area management biologist for the Groundfish, Shellfish & Dive Fisheries, says the last opening was in 2013. He says ADF & G conducts an …