Alaska Fisheries Report

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Coming up on this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report, KMXT talks with Governor Bill Walker about fisheries in the state. Also, a group is fundraising to fight a ballot initiative which seeks to make salmon habitat protections more stringent. We had help from KMXT’s Mitch Borden and the Alaska Energy Desk’s Elizabeth Harball.

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Coming up on this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report, some Kodiak jig fishermen are turning to a Sitka-based community supported fishery to make a profit in light of the cut to cod quota. Also, at Kodiak’s commercial fisheries trade show, ComFish, Mike Litzow with the University of Alaska Fairbanks talks about the effect of global warming on fish in …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Coming up on this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report, the sac roe herring fishery in Sitka closed early after the Alaska Department of Fish and Game determined the fish were too small to put on the market. Also in Sitka, an application for a private, nonprofit hatchery fails once again. We had from KCAW’s Emily Kwong and Katherine in …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Coming up this week, U.S. and Canadian commissioners failed to come to an agreement on catch limits for halibut. In April, members of the International Pacific Halibut Commission will revisit the factors that play into quota decisions. Also, the Pacific Salmon Treaty is another agreement between the U.S. and Canada. It ensures that both nations share the resource …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Coming up on this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report, a Yale student is looking into whether or not jellyfish affect Bering Sea fisheries. Also, Alaska Fish Radio’s Laine Welch sits down with the Alaska Fisheries Report to catch up on the 2016 Gulf of Alaska pink salmon fishery disaster declaration and talk about Atlantic halibut, among other things. We …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report, the governor and lieutenant governor sent a letter to the federal government asking for a fisheries disaster declaration for the 2018 Pacific cod fishery in the Gulf of Alaska. Also, in Kodiak area state waters, big boats are capped off at 50 percent of the pot cod allocation, leaving the smaller boats …

Coming up on this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report, electronic monitoring is in its first official year as an option for fixed gear fishing vessels in the North Pacific Observer Program. But it has a lot of room to grow. Also, King salmon are getting smaller along the West Coast. A recent study looks at why. We had help from KBBI’s …

Coming up on this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report, the decision about Pacific halibut quota is focused in D.C. right now. There’s still a lot for regulators to work out before the halibut season opens at the end of March. Also, the cut to Pacific cod quota this year has been rough for many fishermen. KMXT chatted with one vessel owner …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Coming up on this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report, Alaska will receive recovery funds for the 2016 pink salmon season in the Gulf, but there are still a lot of unknowns surrounding their distribution. Also, Kodiak is losing its fisheries analyst. At least temporarily. We had help from KRBD’s Maria Dudzak, KTOO’s Jacob Resneck, and the Northwest News Network’s …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Coming up on this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report, the Stand for Salmon initiative aims to protect salmon habitats from industry development, but industry professionals are concerned the regulations are too stringent. Also, climate change’s ripple effects are making themselves evident on land, too. Economists are trying to determine the damage to coastal communities when fish just don’t show …