Tag Archives: canneries

  We look at mixing zones, the Clean Water Act and an effort to loosen pollution standards in salmon streams. A new book being published this month tells the story of the salmon canning industry and includes wonderful color photos of old, historic salmon can labels. And we finish up with a story of two guys who did everything right …

Coming up this week, an explosion at the Westward plant in Unalaska this week caused considerable damage, but didn’t stop production; we hear how a cannery was vital to the founding of Petersburg, and… what is that? A giant tadpole or something? All coming up on the Alaska Fisheries Report. We had help from KUCB’s Laura Kraegel and from Alaska …