Alaska Fisheries Report

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Hunter Morrison reports on a kelp seed hatchery, Alena Naiden of KNBA about a push for co-management of subsistence resources at the Alaska Federation of Native Convention, and Fish and Game will not open tanner crab fishing in Kodiak, Chignik, and the Peninsula for 2026.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Davis Hovey reports that an advisory on shellfish around Kodiak has been lifted, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council got some work done at its latest meeting despite the federal shutdown, but according to the Alaska Beacon the shutdown is creating uncertainty for some major Alaska fisheries.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: It's all salmon, with Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist Carl Burnside talking about the big year for sockeye in Chignik, and KMXT's Brian Venua on the rush of pink salmon in Kodiak.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KDLG's Kendra Hannah provides a two-way with economist Gunnar Knapp on processors pulling out of Bristol Bay, Hannah Weaver of KFSK reports on a Petersburg hydroelectric plant that's trying to share water with a hatchery, and Alaska Public Media's Eric Stone on Metlakatla's fight for extended fishing rights.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:KHNS's Avery Ellfeldt has a story on a new insurance option for Alaska fishermen, king salmon sport fishing for out-of-state residents is back on, according to Olivia Rose of KFSK, Evan Erickson reports on a new policy brief about crashing Yukon salmon stocks for KYUK, and a Kodiak fisherman has been fined over a million dollars for persistently pumping bilge water overboard, story by KMXT's Davis Hovey.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:KDLG's Kendra Hanna reports on net recycling in Dillingham, Hunter Morrison of KDLL spotlights a veteran fisherman and his conservation concerns, and KSTK's Colette Czarnecki visits the Mariner's Memorial in Wrangell.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:KUCB's Theo Greenly reports that Unalaska has finally started to see some crab disaster money, KDLG's Kendra Hannah on a prediction of bigger fish in the Bay this year, from KBBI Simon Lopez reports that Alaskans will be able to harvest dungies in Cook Inlet, and efforts to map the Pacific herring genome are underway, according to Desiree Hagen of KOTZ.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Brian Venua peers through his monocle to chronicle one crabber's journey to DC for KMXT, the Fishery Management Council of the North Pacific still won't be specific about a chum collar for Bering Sea pollock trawlers, according to reporting from KYUK's Evan Erickson, and Samantha Watson's relation of her participation in a Kuskokwim salmon celebration, with the story creation and audio preparation at KYUK.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Evan Erickson provides a grim preview of the Yukon salmon season for KYUK, KMXT's Brian Venua reports on the sentencing of a Kodiak crab fisherman, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has reduced the daily limit for rockfish in Cook Inlet, and a nine-year-old has won the Sitka Salmon Derby, according to KCAW's Robert Woolsey.

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:This week features double reports from Theo Greenly of KUAC, the first on a glimmer of hope for KIng Cove, and the second on the uncertain effects of tariffs on US seafood. Plus the AK On Board Crew Training Program!