Maggie Wall/KMXT Salmon season is coming on strong. The Bristol Bay drift fleet upgrades their gear to include chillers and upgrades the quality taken to market. Copper River kings are stronger than forecasted. More than 40 boats fished in the Prince William Sound shrimp fishery. Cod, Dungeness, Pollock, halibut and more all going on in various parts of the …

Sockeye Salmon, courtesy ADF&G. Maggie Wall/KMXT Kodiak’s commercial sockeye salmon season gets off to a bang tomorrow. Already this week has far exceeded expectations, with Monday setting an all time record for sockeye past the Karluk weir. On Monday, a whopping 46,000 fish hit the river, prompting fish and game biologists to reconsider the numbers and open the season early …

Maggie Wall/KMXT Salmon, salmon, salmon. It’s that time of the year in Alaska as fishermen gear up and head out to the grounds. Kodiak’s sockeye season opens early thanks to roughly 46,000 fish passing through the Karluk River weir all in one day. The fish must have been crammed into the river like sardines in a can. The Bristol Bay …

Maggie Wall – KMXT Salmon season opens with southeast-troll-caught kings worth twice the value of a barrel of oil. We’ll look at the forecast for salmon around the state, including the Nushagak River which supports one of the largest king runs in the world. The price of crab quotas is on the rise, but new rules cut into crew shares. …

Maggie Wall/KMXT A joint session of the Alaska Legislature approves Fish Board appointments. All three are familiar faces. State budget woes—more specifically the lack of a Fish and Game budget—may cause a delay to some programs and seriously threaten salmon season. The “First Fish” folks are still waiting to catch those famous Copper River salmon. The schedule was calling for …

Maggie Wall/KMXT Togiak herring is a done deal for seiners, but gillnetters are still on the grounds fishing. Fishing kicks off in the Copper River area with restaurants in the Pacific Northwest ready to serve the year’s first salmon. And halibut quota share prices are skyrocketing. All that and fish music coming up on this week’s edition of the Alaska …

Maggie Wall/KMXT Salmon opens in less than two weeks, we’ll have predictions and forecasts. While salmon might get a lot of press, there are tons of other fish being caught this time of year. We’ll have a statewide round up of who’s fishing what. Togiak herring opened, fishermen are fishing and spotters are spotting. We have a spotter’s eye view …

Maggie Wall/KMXT A new report shows that Alaska seafood now tops the list of favorite protein items at restaurants around the country. The massive Northern Edge military exercise begins May 1, and the Navy finalizes its plans for training in the northern Gulf of Alaska. Kelp could be the next big seafood product. And yet another giant squid has turned …

Maggie Wall/KMXT For nearly two weeks beginning May 1, the U.S. Navy plans a training exercise in the Gulf of Alaska that will use a number of heavy metal laden explosives. The timing and location of the navy’s portion of this year’s Northern Edge 2017 has many fishermen concerned about the possible effects on the fisheries. Let’s start by using …

Maggie Wall/KMXT High ranking Navy brass were in Kodiak during ComFish Alaska to review options tor the navy training exercise scheduled to begin in the Gulf of Alaska the first week of May. Many salmon fishermen and local communities are opposing both the scheduling and location of the exercise. Fishermen and local governments from around the gulf have expressed concerns …