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This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KUCB’s Theo Greenly reports on the clamor over chum bycatch, and on Peter Pan’s mic drop, plus both Senator Sullivan and Commissioner Vincent-Lang have markets on their minds, stories by Brian Venua of KMXT. Sullivan came to Kodiak to give his talk at ComFish in person. (Brian Venua/KMXT)  

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KCAW’s Katherine Rose takes us on a tour of the Japanese herring scene, Jack Darrell reports that Silver Bay Seafoods will be acquiring Trident’s Ketchikan plant, and a Shelby Herbert dispatch tells of Trident’s sale of its Petersburg properties to E.C. Phillips & Son. Sushi chef Kodai Sanada prepares omakase …

The Bearfoot Bakery was one of the first Kodiak businesses to announce it would set up shop in the downtown mall. The owners had a soft opening last month and business is picking up for the local venture.  “We’re trying to get all of our pastries out, bagels, donuts, scones, cinnamon rolls, croissants, but generally we’ve got a couple dozen …

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Its the second equally shameless installment of the year in the rear view mirror.

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Alaska Public media’s Kavitha George reports on Yukon youth without salmon, and CoastAlaska’s Angela Denning on selecting hatchery chinook salmon to preserve wild stocks. Kenzie Englishoe stands by an idle fish wheel once used by her community in Gwichyaa Zhee on Aug. 31, 2023. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media)

Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center has a solution for the island’s housing shortage – building its own apartment complex for new employees. The new units are on the edge of Providence’s campus, just a short walk from the rest of the company’s facilities. The building has been under construction for the last two years, but it’s finally ready to open.  …

The clinic held the ceremony last Friday, but they actually moved into the new facility in late June. The new space on Mill Bay Road is much bigger than Kodiak Veterinary Clinic’s previous hospital.  Staff had been waiting to move for about a year and a half. Nicole Sassin is the vet clinic’s hospital manager. She said it’s great to …

Now! The correct show! On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KDLL’s Jenny Neyman reports on a Cook Inlet clam opener, KRBD’s Raegan Miller says green crabs have arrived, and Evan Erickson of KYUK on Kuskokwim smelt. Bethel residents gathered at the sea wall on May 30, 2023 to mark the return of the smelts. The return of …

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Kodiak’s tanner crab fleet goes fishing, story by KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth, KCAW’s Robert Woolsey reports on the lawsuit that would halt king salmon trolling, and Izzy Ross of KDLG tells of the governor’s vow to fight the Pebble veto. Pebble Mine site.  

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KCAW’s Robert Woolsey reports on an unusual Southeast troll season. Maggie Nelson of KUCB tells of growing pains for the kelp industry. And the special sport and subsistence fishery for Cook Inlet and North Gulf Coast Tanner crab opens on October first.