Alaska Fisheries Report

Coming up this week, the salmon season near Juneau is shorter than it used to be; It’s a long time until herring season, but the forecast is out for Togiak; and trouble between China and Norway could turn into more salmon sales for Alaska. All that, and what is your scariest fishing story. We had help this week from KTOO’s …

Coming up this week: There are more questions than answers at the state’s Chinook Salmon Symposium this week, the fate of foreign cannery workers is still up in the air, and Senator Begich issues a challenge to the makers of Xtra Tufs. We had help this week from KSKA’s Ellen Lockyer in Anchorage.

Coming up this week: The Alaska Chapter of the American Fisheries Society will meet in Kodiak next week; don’t forget the chinook symposium Monday in Anchorage, and more on the fisherman’s former favorite footwear fiasco. Also, pollock B season is about over while Bering Sea crab gets going. We had help this week from KUCB’s Alexandra Gutierrez in Unalaska, CoastAlaska’s …

Coming up this week the fish council proposes a compromise for everybody who loves halibut – though not many from either side are happy about it all; Paycheck Poker doesn’t pan out for processors in Dutch, and Alaska’s junior senator says looking for chinook disaster money will be a multi-state effort. We had help this week from KBBI’s Marcia Lynn …

From KMXT in Kodiak, and with help from public radio station reporters across the state, this is the Alaska Fisheries Report. I’m Jay Barrett. Coming up this week, we get a summer troll wrap up from Southeast and a gillnet wrap up from Bristol Bay. We had help this week from KFSK’s Joe Viechnicki in Petersburg, KDLG’s Mike Mason in …

Coming up this week: You may be one of the people still owed part of a million bucks from the Exxon Valdez litigation; the state answers fishery disaster questions on the Kenai; and NOAA Fisheries Alaska is all over the series of tubes; All that, and more, coming up on the Alaska Fisheries Report. We had help this week from …

Coming up this week, the king escapement on the Kusko might not have met expectations; we get an update on fish prices around the state, and more detail on those upcoming mandatory boat exams. We had help this week from KYUK’s Mark Arehart in Bethel, APRN’s Peter Granitz in Washington D.C., Fish Radio’s Laine Welch in Kodiak, and KFSK’s Matt …

Coming up this week, a lot of sockeye salmon showed up around Haines this y ear, but they get no love. The feds won’t be taking over management around Angoon, and spending 24 hours in a fish tote – adrift on the ocean. We had help from KMXT’s Brianna Gibbs in Kodiak. KHNS’s Margaret Friedenauer in Haines, and CoastAlaska’s Ed …

Coming up this week, Southeast Dungies finish up a few pounds less than last year; could endangered coral become a stumbling block to fishing in the future? And the problem with other critters eating or displacing targeted fisheries. We had help this week from KFSK’s Matt Lichtenstein in Petersburg, KMXT’s Brianna Gibbs in Kodiak, KCAW’s Ed Ronco in Sitka, and …

Haines fishermen JR Churchill, Bob Rude, and Karl Johnson wearing the new suspenders and hold a life ring throw bag provided through the Richard Boyce Inflatable Suspenders Memorial Fund. Photo courtesy Randa Hopper Szymanski Coming up this week, Senator Mark Begich gives us more details on his nationwide seafood marketing plan, we also hear from the professor who wrote a …