Tag Archives: salmon

Alaska Fisheries Report 17 August 2023

Sablefish swimming just above the sea floor. Credit: NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center

This week the Alaska Fisheries Report with host Terry Haines features Jamie Diep’s story on the latest mariculture meet up, courtesy of KBBI, a report on the sudden drop in salmon prices by KFSK’s Hannah Flor, and voracious young black cod could be a challenge for salmon hatcheries, according to Thomas Copeland, also of KFSK. Sablefish swimming just above the …

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Alaska Fisheries Report 27 July 2023

enny Bennis and her family donated sockeye from their setnet in Bristol Bay to help other families on the Yukon and Chignik rivers where salmon populations have crashed. (ALFA photo)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KCAW’s Robert Woolsey reports on the ever expanding Seafood Distribution Network , and KDLG’s Jack Darrell on Bristol Bay salmon’s sudden existential crisis. Jenny Bennis and her family donated sockeye from their setnet in Bristol Bay to help other families on the Yukon and Chignik rivers where salmon populations have …

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Alaska Fisheries Report 13 July 2023

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:  KOTZ’s Desiree Hagen reports on the Kotzebue Sound chum season, and Evan Erickson takes us to a meeting of the Kuskokwim River Salmon Management Working Group, courtesy of KYUK. Plus a glimmer of hope for Cook Inlet setnetters in the form of an experimental net.   U.S. Fish and Wildlife …

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Alaska Fisheries Report 29 June 2023

Dungeness crab that were caught in the Bering Sea by a local Unalaska fisherman. (Sofia Stuart-Rasi/KUCB)

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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Alaska Fisheries Report 15 June 2023

Robyne / KUAC Young scientists from the Fairbanks Youth for Habitat Corps look for fish in Cripple Creek.

On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Wild Fish Conservancy will seek Endangered Species Act protections for Alaska chinook salmon, story from KFSK’s Shelby Herbert. An Angela Denning report about Southeast Alaska Indigenous leaders declaring a salmon emergency. And young citizen scientists count fish in Cripple Creek, story courtesy of KUAC’s Robyne. Young scientists from the Fairbanks Youth …

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Alaska Fisheries Report 12 January 2023

A large male killer whale in the Fraser River, where southern resident whales are now endangered. Photograph: jonmccormackphoto/Getty Images

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Maggie Nelson of KUCB reports on the Unalaska cod strike, and KCAW’s Katherine Rose on the lawsuit that threatens to shut down Southeast chinook trolling. A large male killer whale in the Fraser River, where southern resident whales are now endangered. Photograph: jonmccormackphoto/Getty Images  

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