Tag Archives: Unalaska

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:   A tanner season in Unalaska, story by Theo Greenly of KUCB, Robert Woolsey’s Sitka herring outlook, courtesy of KCAW, plus the state needs crab disaster docs, and the fed declines to take emergency action on Bristol Bay red king crab. Tanner crab

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

Coming up this week, biologist are optimistic about Lower Cook Inlet’s salmon prospects this summer; meanwhile, the board of fish is meeting in Anchorage to address Upper Cook Inlet finfish issues, also known as “The Fish Wars.” A couple of legislators are trying to remove a gag order on Board of Fish members when a conflict of interest comes before …

Coming up this week, an explosion at the Westward plant in Unalaska this week caused considerable damage, but didn’t stop production; we hear how a cannery was vital to the founding of Petersburg, and… what is that? A giant tadpole or something? All coming up on the Alaska Fisheries Report. We had help from KUCB’s Laura Kraegel and from Alaska …

Marines hunkering down during the attack on Dutch Harbor in 1942. Photo from Unalaska City Archives Zoe Sobel/KUCB Governor Bill Walker has declared today (June 3) Dutch Harbor Remembrance Day. Statewide all flags will fly at half-mast to recognize the World War II attack on Dutch Harbor. The 1942 bombing was the first hostile action on Alaskan soil; 25 service men …

The crew of the Coast Guard Alex Haley tows the disabled sailboat Nkhovazi south of Unalaska Island, Alaska, July 23, 2012. The two crewmembers, both British nationals, were brought aboard the cutter while their vessel was towed to Dutch Harbor for repairs.U.S. Coast Guard photo by the Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley Stephanie Joyce/KUCB Two sailors headed from Honolulu to …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The U.S. Navy has called on Kodiak residents to provide information about possible WWII ordnance left on or around the archipelago. In 2011, a Navy historian from Washington state travelled to Alaska to conduct research on the sea defense areas the Navy used in WWII. During his visit, he identified three sites that needed to be looked at …