There’s not much data on where the beluga that swim along the region’s coast are migrating from.
Subsistence
The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.
The U.S. government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done. But instead of preserving wild salmon, it propped up a failing system of hatcheries. Now, that system is falling apart.
Spring is time to celebrate, and study, eulachon in Southeast Alaska
A long-term research study is tracking the eulachon populations across Southeast Alaska to better understand and protect the species.
Supreme Court declines to hear Metlakatla fisherman’s case challenging state fishing regulations
The legal fight centered on a Metlakatla man charged with illegally fishing in waters just outside the state’s only Native reservation.
Board of Fish bans spearfishing for sockeye at Sitka’s Redoubt Lake Falls
Proponents of the ban argued that spearfishing was inefficient, dangerous and disruptive to schooling sockeye — and likely illegal in any case.
Work on Neva Strait spill continues after tugboat is refloated and towed to Sitka
According to the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, a light diesel sheen remained in the area where the boat was grounded.
Seafood safety advisory issued following diesel spill in Neva Strait
The state is advising against harvesting herring eggs in some areas where fuel has been seen.
Subsistence harvesters, seiners react to fuel spill north of Sitka
Subsistence harvesters are trying to figure out how the diesel spill could affect their harvest season, which typically happens a little later in the spring.
After nearly a month, Hooper Bay has plugged the 40-foot hole in its sewage lagoon
The sewage has been flowing into a slough, an important subsistence location for the coastal community.
Hooper Bay’s sewage lagoon has failed, spilling onto an area vital to local subsistence
The entirety of the community’s sewage lagoon has poured onto the surrounding tundra.