Fisheries

On This Week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Sabine Poux Reports on a Fund for Salmon Sustainability, Plus Stories from Jacob Resneck and Eric Stone on the State’s Raw Fish Tax and Ketchikan’s Cancellation of it’s King Salmon Derby. Follow the Link for a Performance by the Serena Karise Band https://www.facebook.com/SerenaKariseBand/videos/279887317119174/

May 12, 2021 by Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO and Alaska Public Media Alaska state Sen. Mia Costello, R-Anchorage, speaks in support of Abe Williams who was rejected from sitting on the Alaska Board of Fisheries on Tuesday, May 11 2021, in Juneau, Alaska. The Alaska Legislature held its annual joint confirmation hearing for dozens of the governor’s appointees to boards and commissions. (AP …

by Jacob Resneck, CoastAlaska Crew members shovel pollock on the deck of a trawler on a Bering Sea fishing trip in 2019. (Nat Herz/Alaska Public Media) A raw fish tax that has pumped tens of millions of dollars into coastal communities over the past decade has survived a legal challenge before Alaska’s highest court. The state can tax seafood caught beyond …

On This Week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The North Pacific Fisheries Management Council Changes Course on Comment

By ISABELLE ROSS • KDLG Dillingham Around 10 seiners, along with a few gillnetters, are expected to tap the 47,300-ton quota. That participation is a jump from last year, but it’s still much lower than normal. A Fish and Game survey photo of Togiak herring on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. (ADF&G) The Togiak purse seine herring fishery opened at 6 p.m. on …

May 3, 2021 by Sage Smiley, KSTK – Wrangell King crabs in a crap pot. (Photo by allyhook/Flickr) House lawmakers have passed a bill that, for the first time in Alaska, would allow shellfish like crab to be grown in hatcheries and released into the wild to bolster commercial fisheries. Rep. Dan Ortiz (I-Ketchikan) sponsored HB-41, which would put shellfish on the …

On This Week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Liz Ruskin reports on plastic fish waste lumber, Mike Swasey on the hooligan run, and Dylan Simard on poison clam needles

This Week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Heat Wave that Crashed Cod, plus Sage Smiley Reports on Trawl Bycatch

April 22, 2021 by Angela Denning, KFSK – Petersburg Humpback whale entangled in commercial lobster gear, sighted off San Diego in 2015. The main threats identified for the whales were ship strikes and fishing gear entanglements. (Courtesy of NOAA, photographed under NOAA permit #: 18786) The National Marine Fisheries Service published a final rule on April 21 designating critical habitat for three …

April 22, 2021 by Sage Smiley, KSTK – Wrangell Alaska’s commercial fishermen have been speaking out against big trawlers for years, complaining that the large vessels in federal waters are scooping up mature and juvenile fish. The regional council that manages federal fisheries recently heard from hundreds concerned about the number of salmon and other species that end up as bycatch in trawl …