If you’re boating between Ketchikan and Gustavus in the next few weeks, keep an eye out for Zachary Brown.
"Glacier Bay"
Southeast sees record tanner crab harvest
Southeast Alaska commercial crab boats caught around 1.25 million pounds of Tanner crab last month, the biggest catch in over a decade.
Glacier Bay tribal house starts construction soon
A tribal house in the former home of Southeast Alaska’s Huna Tlingits will go out to bid this winter.
Donation boosts oil-spill response gear
If an oil spill hits Glacier Bay, there’s a better chance of cleaning it up. The Southeast Alaska Petroleum Resource Organization has cached additional oil spill-response equipment at the Gustavus Airport, not far from the mouth of the bay.
Song of 1652
Biologists earlier this month recorded whale song that they were able to attribute to a particular humpback, a male called #1652, in Glacier Bay.
Bill would allow gull egg harvest in Glacier Bay
A bill just heard by a Congressional committee would allow Tlingits from Hoonah to harvest seagull eggs in Glacier Bay. It would resume a tradition that ended when the former Native homeland became a national park. But it faces opposition from a nationwide environmental group. Tlingits used to live, hunt and fish in Glacier Bay,…