Tag Archives: Tanner Crab

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:   A tanner season in Unalaska, story by Theo Greenly of KUCB, Robert Woolsey’s Sitka herring outlook, courtesy of KCAW, plus the state needs crab disaster docs, and the fed declines to take emergency action on Bristol Bay red king crab. Tanner crab

The Eastside and Southwest Sections of the Kodiak tanner crab fishery and the Eastern and Western Sections of the South Peninsula District have closed for the season. All waters of the Eastside and Southwest Sections of the Kodiak District closed to commercial Tanner crab fishing at 5:59 p.m. on Saturday (January 22, 2022). Fishing in the Eastern Section of the …

On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Kodiak Tanner Crab Kicks Off, story by KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth, Mussels Die in Droves, by Mike Swasey, of KHNS, SE Mariculture Gets Grant, story by KRBD’s Eric Stone, and Sitka Spring Herring is Happening, from Robert Woolsey, who hails from KCAW.     Kodiak Tanner Crab               Kirsten Dobroth/KMXT                   1/14/2022   Host …

Southeast crabbers are on the grounds fishing for Tanner crab, plus there’s a small golden king crab fishery taking place at the same time. Halibut catch limits are slashed in all but one region—the Western Gulf of Alaska. Emails between the Pebble Partnership and Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy show the partnership was concerned about the survival of the controversial gold …

  Good news for Kodiak Tanner crab fishermen. There will be a January fishery. It’ll be small but the pots can go in the water. Fisheries at Chignik and South Peninsula will remain closed, though the outlook for those areas appears promising. A bear messing with a pipe appears to be the cause of an oil spill at the Kitoi …

Tanner crab. (Photo by Paul Quesnell / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The tanner crab fishery wrapped up last week. Nat Nichols, Alaska Department of Fish and Game area management biologist for the Groundfish, Shellfish & Dive Fisheries, says the opening lasted roughly four days, which is about what they expected. And as far participation goes, he says a total of 55 …

On today’s Talk of the Rock, we chat about the recent tanner crab opening with Nat Nichols from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. He’ll give a retrospective on the tanner crab fishery, which opened this year for the first time in Kodiak since 2013.

Coming up this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report, the tanner crab fishery opened in the Kodiak management area for the first time since 2013. Fishermen geared up to try their luck last week. Also, the International Pacific Halibut Commission is meeting in Portland. IPHC is looking at the total allowable catch for halibut along the West Coast, and that’s likely to …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Representatives from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game gave a brief overview of the upcoming commercial Tanner crab season to an audience of two at a recent informational meeting. This year will be the first time the Tanner crab season has opened in Kodiak since 2013. At the meeting, ADF & G area management biologist Nat Nichols …

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 …