On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Sabine Poux reports on the Kasilof dipnet opening for KDLL, Dungeness fishing has been hot in Unalaska, story by KUCB’s Sofia Stuart-Rasi, and dungeness season has opened in Southeast to muted enthusiasm, as reported by Hannah Flor of KFSK. Dungeness crab that were caught in the Bering Sea by a local …
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Katherine Rubio holds up test samples in lab. (Photo by Kayla Desroches / KMXT) Kayla Desroches/KMXT A graduate student is looking at how to extend the shelf life of cooked Dungeness crab and make it safer to eat. She’s working as a summer intern with Alaska Sea Grant and the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute and using their labs to conduct …
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Dungeness crab for sale by Brian Blondin. (Photo by Mitch Borden/KMXT) Mitch Borden/KMXT Fresh seafood seems like it’d be an easy thing to get in a fishing town like Kodiak. But it wasn’t until recently that it was legal for fishermen to sell what they’ve caught right off their boats on local docks. KMXT went down to St. Paul Harbor …
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Tanner crab. (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia) Kayla Desroches/KMXT This year will be the first opening for Tanner crab the Kodiak management area has seen in a few years. Nat Nichols, Alaska Department of Fish and Game area management biologist for the Groundfish, Shellfish & Dive Fisheries, says the last opening was in 2013. He says ADF & G conducts an …
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