Fisheries

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  

Kodiak Island’s Tanner season is going to be a bit smaller this year but the crabs themselves are probably going to be a bit bigger.  Nat Nichols is an area management biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. He said a lot of the animals this year are likely from the same cohort as last year, which means …

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 …

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)

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Brian Venua’s chilly ammonia story from KMXT, chums may get capped, as related by Evan Erickson of KYUK, and Cook Inlet EEZ comments wanted, according to KDLL’s Riley Board. Students in a week-long in-person ammonia class, October 13, 2023. (Brian Venua/KMXT)

Chadwick Watters works for Leader Creek Fisheries in Naknek – near Bristol Bay – and is at the end of an in-person ammonia refrigeration training.  “This class was advertised to us through our facility manager and he kind of told us that this would be a good opportunity to learn more, get more hands on experience and really go into …

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Rhonda McBride reports that AFN is joining the fed in suing the state, Janie Diep of KBBI on kids and salmon eggs, and from KDLG Christina McDermott offers a profile of Bristol Bay fisherman Dan Barr. Twenty-seven classes from 15 schools in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District attended the …

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KYUK’s Evan Erickson reports on building a better bycatch map, chum salmon may be moving on up to the Arctic, story by Dan Bross of KUAC, and Shelby Herbert tells of a federal grant to make dirty diesels into clean hybrids. Plus, AFN speaks up about subsistence preference. Sabrina Garcia, …