The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXT

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT's Katherine Irving reports on Alaska's scallop fishery, and Jessie Sheldon of KDLG adds one story on a Pebble Mine hearing and another on counting salmon with drones and AI. Photo: Dr. Daniel Auerbach (left) and Avery Hoffman (right) fly a drone to survey the Kwethluk River in July 2024. Dr. Daniel Auerbach (left) and Avery H...

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KFSK's Baiz Hoen visits a fisherman boot camp, Jake Dye of KDLL tells of an increase in sockeye bag limits for Upper Cook Inlet rivers, and new restrictions for personal use king salmon are coming for Bristol Bay commercial fishermen, according to KDLG's Jessie Sheldon. Photo: King salmon. (Katie Basile/KYUK)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Alaska Public Media's Rachel Cassandra reports on salmon parasite allergies, Alix Soliman of KTOO adds that an ocean monitoring system has been spared the ax, The Alaska Beacon tells of a starfish lawsuit, and walking the beach looking for dead birds with Sofia Stuart-Rasi of KUCB. Photo: COASST Beachwalker flyer. (KUCB)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Avery Ellfeldt of KHNS reports on mixed feelings about reopening the Chilkat sport king salmon fishery, KYUK's Samantha Watson on the Kuskokwim's Return of the Salmon event, and Katherine Irving adds a story from the studios of KMXT on the cost of gathering survey data. Photo: Community members enjoy a meal at the 2026 Return of t...

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Katherine Irving of KMXT tells of the dampening effect of high fuel prices on the fishing industry, plus KCAW's Hope McKenney reports on the intersection of spawning herring and grey whales in Sitka Sound. Photo: A gray whale forages on herring eggs in Sitka Sound on May 1, 2026. (Photos collected by Alaska Whale Foundation under NMFS...

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KTOO"s Alix Soliman reports on transboundary mines above salmon streams, plus the opening of the hatchery king salmon season in Juneau, Simon Lopez adds a story on continued low numbers of razor clams in Ninilchik and Clam Gulch, plus an audio postcard of kids releasing salmon fry, courtesy of KMXT's Katherine Irving. Photo: A ki...

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KUCB's Maggie Nelson reports on missing buoys in False Pass, Theo Greenly, also of KUCB, on the voiding of Area M restrictions, and KTOO's Yvonne Krumrey on both false emergency alerts and on the passing of a beloved advocate for Alaska Native fishing rights. Photo: False Pass. (NASA)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT's Katherine Irving reports on a new hatchery and ongoing restrictions for fishermen meant to help the rehabilitation of Kodiak king salmon, and KTOO's Alix Soliman on a mine in British Columbia that has Southeast Alaskans worried about their salmon. Photo: The Karluk River flows 22 miles to its terminus at Karluk Lagoon. Fres...

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Alaska Department of Fish and Game's salmon forecasts for Upper Cook Inlet and the Yukon River also list measures taken to preserve king salmon, plus KHNS's Avery Ellfeldt reports that NOAA has decided to not list Gulf of Alaska king salmon as endangered. Photo: Young king salmon swim in the Chena River, part of the Yukon Rive...

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT's Katherine Irving reports on Aquaculture Opportunity Areas, eastside setnetters in Cook Inlet bear the brunt of king salmon conservation efforts, story by KDLL's Ashlyn O'Hara, and Fish and Game has announced its salmon harvest estimates for this year, according to CoastAlaska's Angela Denning. Photo: Brian Gabriel (...

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT's Davis Hovey reports on a bill that seeks to change conflict-of-interest rules for the Board of Fisheries, Pike get hungrier when they get warmer, according to KNBA's Rhonda McBride and the Alaska Beacon, and a conversation between the Northern Journal's Nat Herz and APM's Casey Grove about the alternate fisheries re...

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Davis Hovey reports on the creation of the USDA's new Office of Seafood, Hope McKenney of KCAW on the Sitka Assembly voting against a sweetheart lease deal for a local hatchery, and a story of sea ice prognostication from Ben Townsend and KNOM.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KUAC's Patrick Gilchrist reports the state is short on funds for a Fairbanks hatchery, the Alaska Beacon on a lawsuit on behalf of St. Paul fur seals challenging Bering Sea pollock management and on a state bill that would allow setnet cooperatives, Maggie Nelson of KUCB on a lawsuit challenging recent changes to Area M management, pl...

his week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KDLL's Ashlyn O'Hara reports that driftnet fishermen in Upper Cook Inlet will be using a new rulebook this season, sport fishermen in Southeast Alaska will have more kings to catch, according to Olivia Rose of KFSK, and Katherine Irving tells of salmon dissection from the studios of KMXT. Photo: A king salmon weighs in at Auke Nu C...

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Davis Hovey reports on Alaska's newest kelp hatchery, KCAW's Katherine Rose on the herring opener in Sitka Sound, and KCAW's Ryan Cotter on a convergence of fishermen and librarians. Photo: A kelp farmer harvests the marine algae off the coast of Cordova, Alaska. (Lila Hobbs/The Pew Charitable Trusts)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Alaska Board of Fisheries takes no action on a set of trawl proposals, plus KFSK's Olivia Rose reports on the Dungeness numbers for Southeast Alaska. Photo: Crew members shovel pollock onboard a trawler in the Bering Sea in 2019. (Nat Herz/Alaska Public Media)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KCAW's Hope McKinney reports on a trio of allegedly intentional boat sinkings, the Aleutians East Borough has filed a complaint against a Board of Fisheries member, story from Theo Greenly of KUCB, a crabber has died after falling overboard, as reported by KUCB's Maggie Nelson, and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is restric...

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KYUK's Evan Erickson reports on restricted salmon fishing in Area M to avoid Yukon-bound chums, Hunter Morrison on extending the Southeast shrimp closure to sport and subsistence, courtesy of KRBD, and KMXT's own Davis Hovey on a new producer of seed kelp in Kodiak. Photo: Fritz Charles’ family picks a chinook salmon from the net....

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Alix Soliman reports on the perils and promise of mariculture in SE, Colette Czarnecki on a Wrangell fisherman roundtable, and severe restrictions on Cook Inlet sport king fishing, according to KDLL's Ashlyn O'Hara. Photo: Thousands of young Pacific oysters grow in bins within the floating upweller system, or FLUPSY. (Photo by Ali...

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The North Pacific Fishery Management Council has voted to adopt chum salmon bycatch measures on Bering Sea pollock, as reported by the Alaska Desk's Alena Naiden, and KUCB's Theo Greenly looks at the CDQ groups in the middle. Plus KMXT's Davis Hovey has some good news for Kodiak's cod fishermen. Photo: Chum salmon. (Nation...

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The North Pacific Management Council finally takes final action on measures to curtail chum salmon bycatch in the Bering Sea pollock fishery. Photo: Trawl net and codend in Unalaska's Carl E. Moses Boat Harbor, April 2025. (Theo Greenly)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Theo Greenly reports on possible chum salmon bycatch measures for Bering Sea pollock, Davis Hovey on a subdued assessment for Gulf of Alaska cod, and no revised bag limits for sport halibut, for now. Photo: Pollock (NOAA Fishwatch)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KRBD's Hunter Morrison reports on the Southeast Alaska chinook forecast, Avery Ellfeldt from KHNS on the implications of warming wetlands on salmon, and a report on the Alaska Young Fishermen's Summit from Alix Soliman, compliments of KTOO. Photo: Rowan Miller attended this year''s Young Fishermen's Summit this year in...

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KUCB's Maggie Nelson reports that a major pollock processor will employ fewer foreign workers, KCAW's Katherine Rose says the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery is a go (if anyone goes) and the Alaska Groundfish Data Bank is closing up shop, according to KMXT's Davis Hovey. Photo: Seiners in the fourth opening of the Sitka So...

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Jill Fratis reports on the rescue of nine fishermen from their grounded vessel for KNBA, KMXT's Davis Hovey on cod quota based on obsolete numbers, and Sitka's Fish to Schools program is in the spotlight, courtesy of KCAW's Ryan Cotter. Photo: Sitka Conservation Society and Shee Atiká staff pose with donated sockeye salmon fro...