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This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: It is a double dose of KYUK’s Evan Erickson as he reports on the early lives of chum salmon, and a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service. Plus Brian Venua on Trident’s Alaska divestiture. Chum salmon swimming upriver. (Stori Oates/NOAA Fisheries)  

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The take of killer whales in Alaska fisheries is up, the Alaska Seafood Development Foundation has a new CEO, and a look at the emerging mariculture industry.

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KNBA’s Rhonda McBride talks to Mary Peltola about the federal lawsuit against the state, Shelby Herbert tells of an aquaculture class in Petersburg for KFSK, plus the philosophy of C Shares. PHS aquaculture students release salmon fry into City Creek, about two miles outside of Petersburg. (Photo by Shelby Herbert/KFSK)

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT’s Brian Venua on the upcoming Kodiak tanner crab season, Sitkans gird themselves to battle green crabs as reported by KCAW’s Meredith Redick, and KDLL’s Hunter Morrison reports on pesky northern pike. Northern Pike in Andreafsky river. Photo: USFWS  

Over $22 million in federal funding is coming to Alaska for waste and recycling infrastructure. That’s according to a joint press release today (Fri, Nov. 17) from Alaska senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan.  The money is split between 17 municipal and tribal entities. The Matanuska-Susitna Borough will receive over $3.5 million – the biggest chunk of funds by far. …

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Alaska Public Media’s Kavitha George talks to Cordova kelp farmers, the Tanana Cheifs Conference weighs salmon hatcheries, as reported by Dan Bross of KUAC, and KMXT’s Brian Venua chats with Undercurrent reporter Kirsten Dobroth about a somber meeting of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute. Sean Den Adel and Skye Steritz …

The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, a partially government-funded organization focused on promoting the state’s seafood, held its All Hand on Deck Conference in Anchorage from Nov. 1st through the 4th. Some of the seafood industry’s top experts presented on the state of the market.  Kirsten Dobroth is the Alaska reporter for Undercurrent News, a commercial fishing and seafood trade magazine. …

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: CoastAlaska’s Angela Denning reports on the power of pink salmon, the Alaska Beacon shines a light on an average red run forecasted for next year in Bristol Bay, and Riley Board tells the tale of east side setnet closures in Upper Cook Inlet, courtesy of KDLL. Photo by Kate RuckPink …

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, host Jared Griffin speaks with Kodiak Economic Development Corporation leadership: Executive Director John Whiddon and Associate Director Melissa Schoenwether. Whiddon and Schoenwether discuss KEDC’s new opportunity for downtown businesses: the Storefront Improvement Program. Listen here:

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Kenai Peninsula Borough asks for a setnetter disaster designation, story from Riley Board of KDLL, young Native Alaskans practice fish preparation, from KFSK’s Rachel Cassandra, and ADF&G has released the commercial salmon report for 2023. Set-netters pick a sockeye out of the net in June, 2022. (Sabine Poux/KDLL)