The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXT: Recent Episodes
Terry Haines
On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: New rules for wastewater are on the horizon here in Alaska. Supporters of Robert Kennedy Jr. have enough signatures to get him on the ballot. And herring in Northwest Alaska is still a bit of a mystery.
Photo: Pacific herring
On this week's Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KYUK's Evan Erickson reports on concerns from Kuskokwim residents about trawlers working near salmon streams, and KFSK"s Shelby Herbert gets help from Jack Darrell of KRBD on a deep dive into the petition to list Gulf of Alaska king salmon as endangered.
Photo: Petersburg troller Mark Roberts working on his fishing vessel, the Cape Cross, on May 24, 2024. (Photo by Shelby Herbert/KFSK)
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Andy Lusk of KUCB tells of Aleutian mayors and their appeal to the federal government for help during a fish market crisis, Katherine Rose reports on the Sitka Assembly backing halibut bycatch caps for KCAW, KDLL's Ashlyn O'Hara on yet another lawsuit over the Cook Inlet EEZ, and rusting rivers are the focus of a story by KOTZ's Deseree Hagen.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT's Brian Venua reports on a flood of Russian fish, and on Bristol Bay's new 400 foot floater, plus Sofia Stuart-Rasi of KUCB on the Qawalagin Tribe's efforts to make mussels safe again in Unalaska.
Photo: Northline’s new processing barge Hannah. (Northline image)
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT's Davis Hovey reports on a bill that would eliminate double vessel registration for fishermen, Alaska Public Media's Liz Ruskin reports on new bycatch bills from Rep. Mary Peltola, Copper River salmon season has started, according to KUAC's Dan Bross, and it is drill conductor training season for the Alaska Marine Safety Education Association.
Photo: Trainees take part in an Alaska Marine Safety Education Association exercise.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KDLL's Riley Board reports on higher reimbursements for Fisherman's Fund, thanks to new legislation, KSTK's Collette Czarnecki on the closing of the chinook subsistence fishery on the Stikine River, the Alaska Beacon on a state seafood task force, Alaska Public Media's Rachel Cassandra on fish making the WIC-list, plus a Climate Scenarios Workshop is coming to Kodiak.
Photo: The Stikine River empties into the ocean near Wrangell. (Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News)
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Robert Woolsey reports on new management for the Little Port Walter chinook hatchery for KCAW, Dan Bross files a report on federal management of Yukon River salmon, and a Kodiak forecast for the commercial salmon season from KMXT's Davis Hovey.
Photo: NOAA’s Little Port Walter Research Station (LPW). Credit: Heather Fulton-Bennett/NOAA Fisheries.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:
KDLL's Riley Board reports on the federal disaster declaration for
setnetters on the east side of Upper Cook Inlet and on the final rule
for federal management of salmon fisheries in the Upper Cook's EEZ. Crab fishermen were charged in federal court for illegal transport of crab, as reported by CoastAlaska's Angela Denning. And for KFSK Hannah Flor reports on a proposal to change how a popular run of hatchery king salmon near Petersburg is managed,
Photo: A 45.8-pound king sits on ice during Petersburg’s salmon derby in 2015. (Joe Viechnicki/KFSK)
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KUCB’s Theo Greenly reports on the clamor over chum bycatch, and on Peter Pan’s mic drop, plus both Senator Sullivan and Commissioner Vincent-Lang have markets on their minds, stories by Brian Venua of KMXT.
his week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Anna Canny looks at the effects of climate change on Gulf of Alaska harvesters for KTOO, Nat Herz of Northern Journal on efforts by the Alaska Senate to help smaller fish processors, Jack Darrell of KRBD reports that Trident's Ketchikan plant has changed hands, and Sitka's Seafood Producer's Cooperative will get an energy upgrade, with federal help, as reported by KCAW.
Photo: Seafood Producers Cooperative workers processing fish.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: North Peninsula dungeness season is about to open, as reported by Andy Lusk and Sofia Stuart-Rasi of KUCB, KFSK's Shelby Herbert reports that Trident has finalized sale of its Petersburg plant,Silver Bay is stepping into Peter Pan's shoes, according to Theo Greenly of KUCB, Jack Darrell tells of the reopening of the Annette Island Packing Company for KRBD, Dan Bross of KUAC documented an agreement between governments to quit king fishing in the Yukon, and KFSK's Hannah Flor reports on a federal grant for planning the transition to cleaner power.
Photo: The Annette Island Packing Company in 2009.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Davis Hovey reports that the only salmon buyer in Kodiak's Alitak Bay is pulling out just before the summer season begins, Brian Venua offers a story on new funding for mapping harmful algal blooms on the Oscar Dyson, and then Davis Hovey is back with a sad tale of herring gone unharvested, all produced in the shining production palaces of KMXT.
Photo: NOAA research vessel Oscar_Dyson_(R_224)
This week on the Alaska Fisheres Report with Terry Haines: Meredith Redick reports on fish tracking with eDNA for KCAW, The Yukon River Intertribal Fish Commission hits the Federal Subsistence Board with a Special Action Request, story by KUAC's Dan Bross,and Alaska Public Media's Wesley Early talks to historian Bathsheba Demuth about her trip along the Yukon River.
Photo: Skiffs line the lower Yukon River. Olivia Ebertz/KYUK
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KCAW's Katherine Rose takes us on a tour of the Japanese herring scene, Jack Darrell reports that Silver Bay Seafoods will be acquiring Trident's Ketchikan plant, and a Shelby Herbert dispatch tells of Trident's sale of its Petersburg properties to E.C. Phillips & Son.
Photo: Sushi chef Kodai Sanada prepares omakase at his eight seat sushi bar in Otaru. During herring season, Sanada will prepare a couple of local Hokkaido herring at each omakase sitting, but he doesn’t typically serve herring egg sushi (KCAW/Rose)
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Boat wiring, with Art Schultz, plus in another blast from the past Dylan Simard reports on the suicide half dollar powered by saxitoxin.
Photo: Saxitoxin dipped suicide silver dollar.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Brian Venua reports on cuts to the halibut quota, plus an evergreen piece on deadly algal blooms.
Photo: A red tide off the coast of California. Algal blooms are especially common during the summer months, and are the cause of the state’s annual mussel quarantine. (Peter Franks/Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Senator Murkowski tells KCAW the Wild Fish Conservancy is off course, KDLG’s Christina McDermott reports on a big federal fish purchase, Anna Canny tells of tricky conditions for fish surveys on behalf of KTOO, and KDLL’s own Hunter Morrison contributes a tale of twice used fishing line.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: A report about paralytic shellfish poisoning from Alaska Public Media's Kavitha George, KBBI's Jamie Diep on the effects of ocean acidification on razor clams, and Hannah Flor reports about an electronic monitoring bill that gets a lukewarm reception from industry.
Photo: Alaska razor clams. (Jenny Neyman/KDLL)
This week KDLG's Christina Mc Dermott reports on seafood restaurant dynamics that drive low prices, Theo Greenly of KUCB on petition pushback from Unalaska, and hatchery salmon gets a hearing in the State House.
his week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Nothing is easy in the Cook Inlet EEZ, story by KDLL's Riley Board, plus Jack Darrell of KRBD on the prohibition on yelloweye fishing in Southeast Alaska. Plus: what is a pelagic performance standard, and can it be enforced?
Photo: Yelloweye rockfish. Credit: Alaska Department of Fish and Game
This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Theo Greenly's extensive interview with Wesley Loy about the pollock TAC for KUCB, and Davis Hovey's report on the end of the Kodiak Tanner crab season from KMXT.
Photo: Factory Trawlers like the F/T Alaska Ocean, pictured here in Dutch Harbor in 2023, harvest Alaska pollock in the Bering Sea and process it onboard, producing fillets, surimi and fish oil all aboard the ship. Theo Greenly/KUCB
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: At the Alaska Board of Fisheries meeting in Kodiak compromises are crushed, but gear gets an update for set net salmon fishermen.
This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KYUK's Evan Erickson reports on the appointment of three Alaska Native members to the Advisory Panel of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, and KDLG's Christina McDermott sits down with AMSEA executive director Leann Cyr to talk about mental health among fishers.
This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Its the second equally shameless installment of the year in the rear view mirror.
This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT's Brian Venua reports on Trident's downsizing in Alaska, plus the executive order to ban re-routed Russian seafood, Jack Darrell focuses on the Ketchikan part of the Trident pullout for KRBD, and C share reform gets final action at the NPFMC.
This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines its a shameless look back at this year's fish news, Part One!
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: It is a double dose of KYUK's Evan Erickson as he reports on the early lives of chum salmon, and a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service. Plus Brian Venua on Trident's Alaska divestiture.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The take of killer whales in Alaska fisheries is up, the Alaska Seafood Development Foundation has a new CEO, and a look at the emerging mariculture industry.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KNBA's Rhonda McBride talks to Mary Peltola about the federal lawsuit against the state, Shelby Herbert tells of an aquaculture class in Petersburg for KFSK, plus the philosophy of C Shares.
Photo: PHS aquaculture students release salmon fry into City Creek, about two miles outside of Petersburg. (Photo by Shelby Herbert/KFSK)
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT's Brian Venua on the upcoming Kodiak tanner crab season, Sitkans gird themselves to battle green crabs as reported by KCAW's Meredith Redick, and KDLL's Hunter Morrison reports on pesky northern pike.
Northern Pike in Andreafsky river. Photo: USFWS
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Alaska Public Media's Kavitha George talks to Cordova kelp farmers, the Tanana Cheifs Conference weighs salmon hatcheries, as reported by Dan Bross of KUAC, and KMXT's Brian Venua chats with Undercurrent reporter Kirsten Dobroth about a somber meeting of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: CoastAlaska's Angela Denning reports on the power of pink salmon, the Alaska Beacon shines a light on an average red run forecasted for next year in Bristol Bay, and Riley Board tells the tale of east side setnet closures in Upper Cook Inlet, courtesy of KDLL.
Photo: Photo by Kate Ruck
Pink salmon spawn in Gilmour Creek near where it enters Prince William Sound, Alaska, as a field technician works to collect carcasses of dead fish.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Kenai Peninsula Borough asks for a setnetter disaster designation, story from Riley Board of KDLL, young Native Alaskans practice fish preparation, from KFSK's Rachel Cassandra, and ADF&G has released the commercial salmon report for 2023.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Rhonda McBride reports that AFN is joining the fed in suing the state, Janie Diep of KBBI on kids and salmon eggs, and from KDLG Christina McDermott offers a profile of Bristol Bay fisherman Dan Barr.
Photo: Twenty-seven classes from 15 schools in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District attended the two-day event on the Anchor River and Bear Creek. (Courtesy Eric Hart/Chapman Elementary School)
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KYUK's Evan Erickson reports on building a better bycatch map, chum salmon may be moving on up to the Arctic, story by Dan Bross of KUAC, and Shelby Herbert tells of a federal grant to make dirty diesels into clean hybrids. Plus, AFN speaks up about subsistence preference.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Alaska Public media's Kavitha George reports on Yukon youth without salmon, and CoastAlaska's Angela Denning on selecting hatchery chinook salmon to preserve wild stocks.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: A Bristol Bay two-way with KDLG's Christina McDermot and economist Gunnar Knapp. Not to be outdone, CoastAlaska's Angela Denning sits down with biologist Bo Meredith to break down SE salmon.
F/V Sounder gillnetting in Lynn Canal, Southeast Alaska. Photo: Joe McCabe
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Alaska Department of Fish and Game kicks off its traveling bycatch roadshow, story from Brian Venua of KMXT (plus audio postcard!), and Kavitha George delves into the Yukon salmon collapse for Alaska Public Media.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Anna Canny reports on salmon suffocation for KTOO, Cross-border salmon cooperation as told by Alaska Public Media's Kavitha George, and the National Marine Fisheries Service has closed its comment period for MSA guidelines.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The National Transportation Safety Board issues its report on the sinking of the Challenger, story and setup by Brian Venua, of KMXT, who also contributes a report about a forty year old salmon hatchery in Kodiak.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Brian Venua's report on the salmon market, from KMXT, Desiree Hagen's spot on the Kotzebue salmon closure, and a stroll around a noisy Kodiak boat harbor.
This week the Alaska Fisheries Report with host Terry Haines features Evan Erickson's story about one man openers on the Kuskokwim, from KYUK, the starry predator that eats urchins is featured in Meredith Redick's story for KCAW, and a deadly ammonia leak, story by KUCB's Maggie Nelson.
This week the Alaska Fisheries Report with host Terry Haines features Jamie Diep's story on the latest mariculture meet up, courtesy of KBBI, a report on the sudden drop in salmon prices by KFSK's Hannah Flor, and voracious young black cod could be a challenge for salmon hatcheries, according to Thomas Copeland, also of KFSK.
Photo: Sablefish swimming just above the sea floor. Credit: NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center
On this week's Alaska Fishery Report with Terry Haines: Shelby Herbert tells of a clam garden in Kake for KFSK, and the North Pacific Fishery Management Council is calling for Advisory Panel nominations!
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Cristina McDermott's piece on price transparency, plucked from the KDLG vine, pairs nicely with a story about using Bristol Bay abundance to shore up salmon supplies in the Yukon, supplied by Alaska Public Media's Kavitha George.
This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KCAW's Robert Woolsey reports on the ever expanding Seafood Distribution Network , and KDLG's Jack Darrell on Bristol Bay salmon's sudden existential crisis.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KCAW’s Robert Woolsey reports on an overabundance of sockeye in a Sitka lake, Brian Venua of KMXT on a slow start for Kodiak seiners, and his colleague Kirsten Dobroth on whether everyone can play nice in the “sandbox.”
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KOTZ’s Desiree Hagen reports on the Kotzebue Sound chum season, and Evan Erickson takes us to a meeting of the Kuskokwim River Salmon Management Working Group, courtesy of KYUK. Plus a glimmer of hope for Cook Inlet setnetters in the form of an experimental net.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Regulators are considering rewriting the implementing guidelines for the National Standards of the Magnuson Stevens Act. We find out which ones, and why.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Sabine Poux reports on the Kasilof dipnet opening for KDLL, Dungeness fishing has been hot in Unalaska, story by KUCB’s Sofia Stuart-Rasi, and dungeness season has opened in Southeast to muted enthusiasm, as reported by Hannah Flor of KFSK.
On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines:The Governor has signed a bill transferring management of the Power Cost Equalization Endowment to the Permanent Fund team. Dillingham has a town hall on opioid overdose prevention and mental health resources. And a program for teen students immerses them in STEM subjects.
Unalakleet, one of the communities in Alaska eligible for power cost equalization. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Its all Robert Woolsey this week, as KCAW's ever-intrepid-one first celebrates troll history, then reports on its newly brighter future.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KDLL’s Jenny Neyman reports on a Cook Inlet clam opener, KRBD’s Raegan Miller says green crabs have arrived, and Evan Erickson of KYUK on Kuskokwim smelt.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KCAW’s Ezra Dan reports on artisanal Southeast scallop diving, Nat Herz, of the Northern Journal on the looming troll closure (without a stay in sight), and Shelby Herbert of KFSK on the Petersburg fish rapper.
Photo: Lil Realist X
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Alaska Public Radio’s Liz Ruskin reports on efforts to reshape the Federal Fishery “Management Commandments.” Plus Desiree Hagen of KOTZ tells of the connection between spawning sheefish and slumping permafrost.
Photo: Siikauraq Martha Whiting ice fishing for Sheefish. The Iñupiaq name for sheefish is sii (pronounced like “see” in English) USFWS/Katrina Liebich
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KCAW’s Robert Woolsey’s spotlight on three Sitka salmon trollers facing a court ordered closure.
Photo: Sitka troller Eric Jordan (Sitka Conservation Society/Bethany Goodrich)
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Area M Question is center stage at an Alaska Senate Committee. The Fish and Game Commissioner weighs in.
Photo: Terry Haines
On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A threat of gun violence at John Apangalook School in Gambell resulted in a lock-out protocol for students. The Fed. Subsistence Board is proposing an emergency order drastically reducing the current harvest of the Western Arctic Caribou Herd. Representatives from a company seeking to establish a graphite mine in the Kigluaik Mountains north of Nome held a community meeting last week.
Photo: A group of Western Arctic Herd caribou pause in front of mountains in Kobuk Valley National Park during fall migration in 2016.
his week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: This week dual Area M stories, from KUAC’s Dan Bross and KUCB’s Theo Greenly, and KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth reports on a field trip by Alaska mariculture folk to South Korea, where kelp is king.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: This week KDLL’s Sabine Poux reports on an emergency rockfish reduction, Desiree Hagen tells of testing for toxic algal blooms, courtesy of KOTZ, and Yukon River salmon forecasts are the subject of a story from Dan Bross, of KUAC fame.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report: I make use of Yereth Rosen’s wasted sea star story from the Alaska Beacon…and expand it!
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KBBI’s Corinne Smith serves up a Cook Inlet Salmon forecast wrap, and Sage Smiley’s tour de force on transboundary watersheds, produced in the studios of KSTK.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Kenai is already closed for kings, story by Sabine Poux of KDLL, kids go icefishing, as reported by KBBI’s Corinne Smith, and a halibut preview from KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Brian Venua of KMXT reports that ASMI is helping the state distribute salmon in Ukraine, The Board of Fish votes to continue to manage 2 Chignik sockeye runs separately, story by KBBI’s Corrinne Smith, Sabine Poux reports on a possible buyback plan for Cook Inlet setnetters for KDLL, and Izzy Ross of KDLG on Area M restrictions.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Alaska fishery injuries are most often associated with a winch, story from the Alaska Beacon's Yereth Rosen, Shelby Herbert reports on watershed repair for KFSK, and the Russian River watershed is protected for twenty more years, as reported by KDLL's Riley Board.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Kodiak’s tanner crab fleet goes fishing, story by KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth, KCAW’s Robert Woolsey reports on the lawsuit that would halt king salmon trolling, and Izzy Ross of KDLG tells of the governor’s vow to fight the Pebble veto.
Photo: Pebble Mine site.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Oceana's Jon Warrenchuk makes a case for a freezing the footprint of bottom trawling in the Gulf of Alaska, plus KMXT's Kirsten Dobroth with a tanner crab stand down update.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth on the Tanner crab stand down, Senator Murkowski says fishery disaster money flows too slowly, the trials of a cucumber fisherman, and what will the Mariculture Cluster do with the money?
Photo: Giant red sea cucumber
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: A look back at some of the top Alaska fish stories of 2022.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Maggie Nelson of KUCB reports on the Unalaska cod strike, and KCAW's Katherine Rose on the lawsuit that threatens to shut down Southeast chinook trolling.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The North Pacific Fishery Management Council puzzles over how to comply with a court’s order to actively manage the offshore Cook Inlet driftnet fishery.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Co-Ho-Ho!
Tear the wrapping away and find Robert Woolsey’s present: a report about a forum on the Future of Fishing, plus Kirsten “Santa” Dobroth from KMXT has two for your stocking: a story on declarations of fish disasters, and one about a plea for precious flotsam.
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.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: There were no fatalities within Alaska’s commercial fishing fleets this year, story by KRBD’s Raegan Miller, it’s river eel season on the Kuskokwim River, as KYUK’s Francisco Martinezcuello reports, and KCAW’s Robert Woolsey says Northline Seafoods is planning a big comeback.
On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Candidates running for statewide office speak about their plans to address climate change. Misinformation, skepticism and hostility around election integrity are taking their toll on Alaska election workers. And scientists want to compare stress levels in Juneau's humpback whales during the pandemic with this year, when tourism was almost back to normal.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Part Two of our visit to a meeting of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, the Bycatch Reduction vs. Optimum Yield Edition.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines, its a visit to a meeting of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, Crab Crash Edition.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Raegan Miller of KRBD on invasive green crabs, KTOO’s Yvonne Krumrey reports on the Filipino heritage of Alaska’s canneries, and KBBI’s Hope McKenney reports on ADF&G’s program that teaches kids about salmon. Photo Credit: Emily Grason, Washington Sea Grant.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth reports on the snow crab closure, KDLL’s Riley Board on the fish that makes fat bears fat, and a story from her colleague Sabine Poux on Cook Inlet closures ordered back open.
On this week's Alaska Fisheries Report: KMXT's Kirsten Dobroth and Alaska Public Media's Liz Ruskin report on two nights of fisheries debates in Kodiak. And KDLG's Izzy Ross reports on declining permit ownership for locals in Bristol Bay.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KCAW’s Robert Woolsey reports on an unusual Southeast troll season. Maggie Nelson of KUCB tells of growing pains for the kelp industry. And the special sport and subsistence fishery for Cook Inlet and North Gulf Coast Tanner crab opens on October first.
The mighty Alaska Bycatch Review Task Force assembled this week. Excerpts of their proclamations are sandwiched in-between puffs of pontification.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Crab Committee of the Bycatch Taskforce asks questions about unobserved mortality, and what the word pelagic means. Plus KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth reports on a blowy beginning to B season Pollock in the Central Gulf.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KDLL’s Sabine Poux reports on mapping Alaska streams, and that Alaska mariculture will be getting a 49 million dollar federal boost.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Kirsten Dobroth of KMXT talks to NOAA fisheries scientist Mike Litzow on the impacts of accelerating climate change in the Arctic, and Lauren Wild of University of Alaska Southeast on sperm whales vs. longliners.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth reporting on NOAA’s new strategic plan for Alaska mariculture, Katherine Moncure of KDLG with a story on the Alaska Salmon Program, and Anna Rose MacArthur of KYUK on closed coho in the Kuskokwim.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:
Robert Woolsey reports from KCAW on a ruling against the National Marine Fisheries Service regarding troll caught chinook salmon.
And KDLL’s Sabine Poux adds to the saga of Cook Inlet setnetters.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Fishtival! by KDLG’s Corinne Smith. A story about electrified mudbugs by KMXT’s Dylan Simard. And the comment period is open on the expanded critical habitat for North Pacific right whales.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Davis Hovey’s report on this year’s Norton Sound king crab fishery, Brian Venua’s story on Chignik meeting its sockeye escapement goal this year, and Raegan Miller’s piece about abalone enhancement.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Part 3 of the story about subsistence and commercial conflicts in Area M by Olivia Ebertz, plus Anna Rose MacArthur reports on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council’s listening tour, and its stop in Nome.
On this week's Alaska Fisheries report with Terry Haines: Part two of the Olivia Ebertz story on Area M salmon from KYUK. And scientist Bruce Wright on the potential for more red tides in Alaska.
On this week's Alaska Fisheries Report: KYUK's Olivia Ebertz with her first installment in a series about the salmon of Area M. Brian Venua of KDLG reports on an historic Bristol Bay sailboat. And Raegan Miller with a piece on the science of marine debris for KRBD.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries report with Terry Haines: KYUK's Anna Rose MacArthur reports on the close of subsistence salmon fishing on the Yukon. KRBD's Raegan Miller offers a story about salmon restoration in Ketchikan, and Angela Denning on budget cuts for the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:
KNOM’s Miriam Trujillo has bycatch reaction from Salmon Central, and ADF&G’s Sabrina Garcia wants to know more about salmon sharks.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:
KCAW's Robert Woolsey on Salmon Bycatch,
Olivia Ebertz of KYUK with sad news about Yukon salmon
and KDLL's Sabine Poux with happier news for Cook Inlet driftnetters.
This week KDLL's Sabine Poux reports on more king closures, KUAC's Dan Bross tells of low salmon returns to the Yukon, and the North Pacific Fishery Management Council figures a warmer climate into their snow crab rebuilding plan.
KCAW’s Robert Woolsey previews the North Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting, Dan Bross from KUAC previews the Yukon salmon run, KYUK’s Anna Rose MacArthur reports of a letter from the north asking Area M fishermen to stand down in June, and Kirsten Dobroth of KMXT tells the tale of a bottom survey.
KCAW’s Robert Woolsey reports on the Sitka Salmon Derby,
Sabine Poux of KDLL looks at catch-and-release Kings on the Kenai,
from KYUK Elyssa Loughlin presents a postcard from Bethel,
and the state is being sued by the federal government over rural subsistence preference.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: A report from Corrinne Smith on a study using environmental DNA to study the eulachon, or hooligan, runs in Alaska. Plus an interview with researcher Meredith Pochardt, on the tiny, oily fish about which surprisingly little is known.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Izzy Ross reports on permanent protections for Bristol Bay, Anna Rose MacArthur on the Donlin Mine water quality certificate, and Miriam Trujillo on robotic sea gliders!
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Alaska Department of Fish and Game takes testimony on how federal fishery disaster money should be spent, and Yukon/Kuskokwim residents have plenty to say.
This week I talk to Arron Kallenberg about Wild Alaskan's million dollar donation to the Alaska Food Bank, and being a public benefit corporation plus Maggie Nelson's story about the groundbreaking new mariculture bill in the Alaska Legislature.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Sage Smiley reports on the SE pink salmon forecast. Sabine Poux with a sharp story about razors in Clam Gultch. And Izzy Ross tells us about the massive Togiak herring run…that will go mostly unharvested.
Angela Denning's wide awake story about sleep research for fishermen, and Maggie Nelson's catch of the day, regarding Unalaska fishermen taking local youths out on the water.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Robert Woolsey’s story on hatchery chums, Joe Viechnicki’s on the record herring catch in Sitka Sound, Clair Stremple’s piece on the Mariculture conference in Juneau, and Kirsten Dobroth on a tiny maritime art display.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Where have all the snow crab gone?
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Board of Fish bans sockeye spearfishing in Sitka. Homer fisherman Michael Heimbuch is the Governor’s new nominee to the Board of Fish. And a fisherman competition caps Comfish.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines, its all Board ‘O Fish, with Angela Denning reporting on the nixing of the proposed red crab fishery, and Joe Viechnicki’s story on the thumbs up for the King Compromise.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Marine biologist Tamsen Peeples talks about the challenges and potential rewards of the emerging kelp farming industry:
Fishery regulators say the expansion of the Kensington mine could threaten the ecosystem of Berner's Bay.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Kirsten Dobroth goes off about House hearings on fed fish Ds, Hope McKenney gets spinny on the skinny about rare whales at sea, And Sage Smiley was wily in stalking her story on the Bycatch T:
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Managers consider controversial changes in how halibut is allocated between charter and harvest fishermen. Pelican is selling its City owned processing plant. And another weak forecast for the sockeye salmon run in Upper Cook Inlet.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries report with Terry Haines: Scientists are studying high mercury levels in Alaskan Steller sea lion populations. Plus a memorial scholarship aims to connect Southeast students to the seafood industry.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Late run king salmon will be catch and release on the Kenai. Southeast Tanners looks promising. And an international effort to solve the salmon puzzle.
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.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: A Kodiak crab boat readies for the upcoming season. Plus Joe Viechnicki reports on the change of venue for the Board of Fish.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report: Indy Walton resigns from the Alaska Board of Fish, which has also postponed its next meeting. Plus a look at EEZs, MSA, and the National Standards.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Part 2 of my interview with Alaska Fish Radio’s Laine Welch.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: A conversation with Fish Radio’s Laine Welch. “From the Rooter to the Tooter”
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report Sabine Poux reports on the Abundance Based Bycatch, and Mariculture Grants:
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Gulf bounces back from the heat wave, but things are different.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines, reporter Greg Kim takes us to the Kuskokwim region as residents weigh in on fish management and diversify into crab quota:
Cook Inlet fishing improves somewhat. And the Board of Fish relaxes oyster importation standards.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Cook Inlet fishermen go to court, again. Chuck Bundrant Remembered. And Southeast pinks bounce back a bit.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report: Alaska fish stat guru Jonathan Kirsch and the significance of the sport survey.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KDLL’s Sabine Poux reports on the Alaska Board of Fish and gillnetter angst. Plus KTOO’s Rhonda McBride interviews Fisheries Professor Joel Markis on the new hotness…mariculture!
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: An rewarmed interview with Art about wires and watery environments, a high seas rescue way out west, and some groundfish statistics.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with host Terry Haines: Sage Smiley reports on a request by salmon dependent communities for zero bycatch in trawl fisheries, plus an interview with biologist Birch Foster on why some salmon thrive.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: This week’s show features Hobo Jim.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: A former fish lobbyist fights ticket for fishing over the line. A federal judge rules against shielding big pollock producers from big fines. And Fisheries professor Courtney Carothers talks about indigenous knowledge.
On today’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: A story by Sabine Poux about phytoplankton, and Sage Smiley’s story linking fish dinners with clean waters.
On This Week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Big Fines Over a Tiny Railroad, Fisherman Nominated to Board of Fish, Chignik Struggles with Poor Runs
On This Week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: St. Patrick Oozes Oil and Memories, Catch Share Conundrum Continues
On This Week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Overescapement in the Kenai, and Fishermen Want Ground Up Federal Ocean Policy
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Sabine Poux Reports on Cook Inlet Fishermen Seeking Better Grounds, and a Look Back at the St Patrick Tragedy
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Sabine Poux of KDLL on Alaska Wild Salmon Day, KDLG’s Stephanie Maltarich digs into the Bay’s Big Run, and Arron Kallenberg talks about Quality at Scale
Stress makes sablefish go deaf. Plus the Wild Alaskan (aka The Shaman) goes on its final trip.
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report: KUAC’s Dan Bross and his story on Yukon salmon, Robert Woolsey KCAW tells of reduced Chinook bag limits, and the NTSB accepts findings of Scandies Rose report.
On This Week’s Alaska Fisheries Report: The North Pacific Fisheries Management Council Unable to Address Excess Trawl Sablefish Catch
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Council Takes No Action on Excess Trawl Caught Small Sablefish
On This Week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Frankenfish Hit The Markets, Conservation Easements in Illiamna, and Senator Murkowski on the Pebble Project
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report: KUAC’s Dan Bross and his story on Yukon salmon, Robert Woolsey KCAW tells of reduced Chinook bag limits, and the NTSB accepts findings of Scandies Rose report.
On This Week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Deadliest Dinoflagellates
On This Week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Sabine Poux Reports on a Fund for Salmon Sustainability, Plus Stories from Jacob Resneck and Eric Stone on the State’s Raw Fish Tax and Ketchikan’s Cancellation of it’s King Salmon Derby. Follow the Link for a Performance by the Serena Karise Band https://www.facebook.com/SerenaKariseBand/videos/279887317119174/
On This Week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The North Pacific Fisheries Management Council Changes Course on Comment
This Week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Heat Wave that Crashed Cod, plus Sage Smiley Reports on Trawl Bycatch
This Week On the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Executive Silence About Decisions On the Makeup of the North Pacific Management Council’s Advisory Panel
This Week On the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Groups Seek Permanent Changes from the EPA and Congress to Protect Salmon in Bristol Bay Watershed
On This Week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Balancing Nushagak KIng Salmon Escapement with the Sockeye Harvest, plus Herds of Herring!
On This Week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Proposed Bill Would Relax Conflict Rules for Board of Fish, Proposed Salmon Stamp Would Fund Crumbling Infrastructure, City of Homer Opposes New Rules by State and Fed
On This Week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Sabine Poux Reports On ASMI’s Survey of Economic Impacts of COVID, and Jeb Morrow Tries His Hand at Backing Crab
On This Week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Watershed Monitoring Program is a Wrap, DNA Evidence Used to Track Belugas, The Deadliest Virus, Fishing for History
On This Week’s AFR with Terry Haines: Homer Will Pay to Remove Derelict, Naval Architects Question Icing Guidelines In Wake of Scandies Rose Sinking See Hearings
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Hallway Halibut Excluders: Do They Work?