The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is closing all sport fishing for nonpelagic rockfish in outside waters from Yakutat to Ketchikan for three weeks beginning August 1.
Fisheries
Amalga Harbor hatchery chum run opened to seiners
Southeast seiners will have a shot at a large run of hatchery chums for six hours Thursday. The opening is at Amalga Harbor, about 20 miles northwest of downtown Juneau.
Cutter’s namesake, harrowing rescue effort that braved storm and surf honored decades later
Bailey Barco led a rescue of five crew members from the wrecked, three-masted schooner Jennie Hall in December 1900. The Coast Guard’s namesake vessel is bigger, can patrol longer than older, Island-class cutters.
Southeast’s summer Dungeness crab season shortened by three weeks
The current estimate for the combined summer and fall harvest is 1.68 million pounds — the lowest estimate early since Fish and Game implemented a management plan in 2000.
Research group finds toxin in Auke Rec butter clams
Researchers found about three-times the level of toxin accepted by the Food and Drug Administration.
A Sitka mobile plant built to chill out the Bristol Bay fishery
Pat Glaab and his partner Ben Blakey bought a 150-foot former helicopter logging barge and they’re converting it into a floating fish processor.
Study examines the ripple effect of fishing charters’ choices
University of Fairbanks Ph.D. Candidate Maggie Chan wants to know how and why the fishing charter industry is changing in Southeast and Southcentral Alaska.
No answers for low Kuskokwim king run
The driving question over the last several years, and the one that’s being asked again as biologists warn that 2017 could be the lowest king salmon run on record, is: why is the king run on the Kuskokwim so low?
Aquaculture association commissions study in Tutka Bay
The Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association has been trying to move a majority of its net pens in the Tutka Bay Lagoon to the head of Tutka Bay for about four years. The hotly debated issue has led to packed community meetings and questions about the impact of raising fish in the area.
Business as usual for marine mammal deterrence
It’s still business as usual when it comes to dealing with protected marine mammals in Southeast waters.