Alaska Fisheries Report

Coming up this week, what the infamous T-P-P could mean for Alaska’s seafood exports, the challenges of counting pink salmon, and The Cannery Project takes us to False Pass. All that and more on this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report. We had help this week from KDLG’s Molly Dischner in Dillingham, the Cannery Project’s Anjuli Grantham in Kodiak, KFSK’s Joe Viechnicki …

Coming up this week – fishery managers are wondering where the Kodiak and Chignik Tanner crab have gone to, the hatchery that burned near Petersburg is back up and running, and selling salmon in the desert. We had help from KRBD’s Leila Kiehry in Ketchikan, and both KFSK’s Joe Viechnicki and Angela Denning in Petersburg. 

Coming up this week, we take a more in-depth look at the numbers released last week by NOAA Fisheries; the EU has its own problems with mislabeled seafood, and Kenai fishermen share their experiences with verse. We had help from KDLG’s Molly Dishner in Dillingham, KFSK’s Joe Viechnicki in Petersburg, and KDLL’s Jenny Neyman in Kenai. 

Coming up this week, NOAA’s annual overview of our nation’s fisheries came out Thursday and we find out where the most seafood was landed and who got paid the most for last year’s catch – spoiler alert: those two top spots haven’t changed in a while. Also, remembering an observer mysteriously lost at sea. And more, coming up on the …

Coming up this week, there are even more options on the table regarding Gulf of Alaska bycatch after the North Pacific Council met; we have a new director of the commercial fisheries division, and once again proof that you shouldn’t mess with the Lacey Act. We had help from KSKA’s Ellen Lockyer AND Monica Gokey in Anchorage, and KDLG’s Molly …

Coming up this week, a dive fisherman dies just off the coast of Kodiak, the Opilio TAC is down, way down, and how Filipinos came to play such a large role in our seafood industry. We had help from KTOO’s Matt Miller in Juneau, KUCB’s Greta Mart in Unalaska, KDLG’s Dave Bendinger in Dillingham, and guest contributor Anjuli Grantham in …

Coming up this week, we hear what the TAC is going to be for crab in the Bering Sea when three seasons open next week, we find out exactly how Southeast crabbers did with Dungies this summer, and the forecast for next spring’s Togiak Herring run looks mighty … average. All that and more, coming up on the Alaska Fisheries …

Coming up this week, the new board president of the BBRSDA says their vision will remain the same, how warm summers affect young pollock, and rainy Kodiak apparently isn’t rainy enough. Stay tuned for all that and more on the Alaska Fisheries Report. We had help from KDLG’s Molly Dishner in Dillingham, KMXT’s Kayla Desroches in Kodiak, and the Ice …

Coming Up this week, PSP is found in commercial shellfish beds in Kachemak Bay, a fisherman is going to prison for the death of one of his divers, and soon there’ll be enough crawdaddies to have a beach party. A sad, sad invasive species beach party. We had help from KBBI’s Quinton Chandler in Homer, The Deckboss Blog, KMXT’s Kayla …

Coming up this week, the state’s commercial fisheries director is retiring, what happens when scientists let a journalist run the sonar, and that is one big fish. We had help from KDLG’s Hannah Colton in Dillingham, KDLL’s Jenny Neyman in Kenai, and KTOO’s Matt Miller in Juneau.