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Part one of this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines features Part two of a report from Olivia Ebertz about salmon fishing in Area M.

On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KYUK’s Anna Rose MacArthur reports on the close of subsistence salmon fishing on the Yukon. KRBD’s Raegan Miller offers a story about stream restoration in Ketchikan, and Angela Denning on budget cuts for the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute.   Yukon Salmon Update                    …

On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KNOM’s Miriam Trujillo has bycatch reaction from Salmon Central, and ADF&G’s Sabrina Garcia wants to know more about salmon sharks.    Alaska Fish and Game’s Sabrina Garcia wants to know more about salmon sharks. It’s a piece of a bigger puzzle Fish and Game is piecing together. So how do fishermen …

On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KCAW’s Robert Woolsey on Salmon Bycatch, Olivia Ebertz of KYUK with sad news about Yukon salmon and KDLL’s Sabine Poux with happier news for Cook Inlet driftnetters.   BYCATCH                                          ROBERT WOOLSEY             KCAW           Despite hours of testimony from residents living along the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers who called for urgent …

On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KDLL’s Sabine Poux reports on more king closures, KUAC’s Dan Bross tells of low salmon returns to the Yukon, and the North Pacific Fishery Management Council figures a warmer climate into their snow crab rebuilding plan.   Restricting Kings                               Sabine Poux       KDLL          Poor runs already closed the Kenai River to …

On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KCAW’s Robert Woolsey previews the North Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting, Dan Bross from KUAC previews the Yukon salmon run, KYUK’s Anna Rose MacArthur reports of a letter from the north asking Area M fishermen to stand down in June, and Kirsten Dobroth of KMXT tells the tale of a bottom …

On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KCAW’s Robert Woolsey reports on the Sitka Salmon Derby, Sabine Poux of KDLL looks at catch-and-release Kings on the Kenai, from KYUK Elyssa Loughlin presents a postcard from Bethel, and the state is being sued by the federal government over rural subsistence preference. SITKA SALMON DERBY                ROBERT WOOLSEY        KCAW     …

On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: A report from Corrinne Smith on a study using environmental DNA to study the eulachon, or hooligan, runs in Alaska. Plus an interview with researcher Meredith Pochardt, on the tiny, oily fish about which surprisingly little is known.   Eulachon    Corinne Smith/KHNS   Eulachon, (“Yew-la-kon”) the small smelt fish known in …

On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Alaska Department of Fish and Game takes testimony on how federal fishery disaster money should be spent, and Yukon/Kuskokwim residents have plenty to say:   Disaster Funds      Kirsten Dobroth  KMXT   More than $130 million [web: $131.8 million] in federal relief money is heading to Alaska communities impacted by more …

Listen to this story; Kodiak’s Crab Fest is around the corner, and revelers will have a new venue where they can celebrate; the Double Shovel Cider Company plans to open its doors in downtown Kodiak that same weekend. Double Shovel owners Gideon Saunders and Jack Lau say they’re excited to bring cider to Kodiak. Saunders says it will be a …