The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXT

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Its Lookback Episode #2, with reporting from KUCB's Maggie Nelson on the FISH Act, from KMXT's Davis Hovey on a new herring fishery, plus a grim assessment of the state of halibut. Photo: Alaska herring. (Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Merry Christmas! In this retro show we listen back at Theo Greenly's report for KUAC and the Alaska Desk on chum salmon bycatch in Bering Sea pollock, Desiree Hagen's report on sheefish for KOTZ, and Ben Townsend's visit to Salmon Lake for KNOM. Photo: Siikauraq Martha Whiting ice fishing for Sheefish. (Katrina Liebich/U.S. Fi...

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Alaska Desk reporter Alena Naiden drops a story about Backyard Buoys, and KCAW's Hope McKenney reports on Alaska's first hybid powered commercial fishing boat. Photo: Quinhagak resident Patrick Jones deploys a buoy in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region in early summer, 2025.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: This week KUCB's Maggie Nelson reports on Red crab nearly wasted, Davis Hovey tells of a comment period for fishery management suggestions, and a sablefish report card!

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Alaska Public Media's Casey Grove talks to fisheries reporter Hal Bernton about warm oceans and flawed models in the halibut fishery, and Maggie Nelson reports that harvestable pollock was left in the ocean in the Bering Sea "B" season, courtesy of KUCB. Photo: Pacific halibut. (Alaska Department of Fish and Game)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KUCB's Theo Greenly reports that crabbers are finally starting to get relief money, Southeast Alaska's first red king crab fishery in eight years is underway, according to KFSK's Olivia Rose, and Cook Inlet had a good sockeye season, story by KDLL's Ashlyn O'Hara. Photo: Close up of a red king crab in a tote near Peter...

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT's Davis Hovey reports that the Alaska State Troopers seized all electronics from the Alaska Groundfish Data Bank in Kodiak, and then he throws cold water on an old wives tale. Photo: Micrograph of phytoplankton. (Image by NOAA MESA Project, via the NOAA Photo Library.)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Hunter Morrison gives an update on invasive European green crabs from the studio of KRBD, fishing job numbers are down again, according to KUCB's Theo Greenly, and a wayward fishing vessel was captured in Petersburg, story from Olivia Rose of KFSK. Photo: European Green Crab (Photo by Ginny Eckert/Alaska Sea Grant)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Davis Hovey and Brian Venua discuss the recent meeting of the United Fishermen of Alaska in Kodiak, Olivia Rose of KFSK reports on the first red king crab fishery in eight years in Southeast Alaska, and the sport fish survey is about to hit mailboxes. Photo: Red king crab in a tote near Petersburg, September 2025. (Angela Denning/Coast Al...

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Hunter Morrison reports on a kelp seed hatchery, Alena Naiden of KNBA about a push for co-management of subsistence resources at the Alaska Federation of Native Convention, and Fish and Game will not open tanner crab fishing in Kodiak, Chignik, and the Peninsula for 2026. Photo: Young kelp plants grow inside water tanks at Premium Aquatic...

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Davis Hovey reports that an advisory on shellfish around Kodiak has been lifted, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council got some work done at its latest meeting despite the federal shutdown, but according to the Alaska Beacon the shutdown is creating uncertainty for some major Alaska fisheries. Photo: The North Pacific Fishery Manag...

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Petersburg Borough Assembly is calling for help controlling sea otters, story by KFSK's Taylor Heckert, Hunter Morrison of KRBD reports a Ketchikan man has pleaded guilty to charges of theft and illegal fishing, and Alaska Beacon's Yereth Rosen reports that things look rosier for Bering Sea crab stocks, for now. Photo: Bristol...

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Alix Soliman of KTOO reports on the challenges and opportunities in Alaska oyster farming, KCAW's Hope McKenney on the economics of the Southeast Alaska fishing industry, and Brian Venua on the entanglement of the whales, from KMXT. Photo: Salty Lady Seafood Co. staff pull up oysters in Bridget Cove. (Photo courtesy of Meta Mesdag)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Brian Venua reports on a grant awarded to a Kodiak plant for kelp processing, mariculture was front and center at the recent meeting of the Southeast Conference, according to Ryan Cotter of KCAW, and Wali Rana of KNOM tells of aerial surveys of the Bering and Chukchi Seas. Photo: A kelp farmer harvests the marine algae off the coast of Co...

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KOTZ's Desiree Hagen reports on bad data for the northernmost salmon fishery, Southeast salmon was less than stellar, according to CoastAlaska's Angela Denning, and the state wants the Supreme Court to take on rural preference for subsistence, according to KYUK's Sage Smiley. Photo: Chum salmon (NFWS)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: It's all salmon, with Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist Carl Burnside talking about the big year for sockeye in Chignik, and KMXT's Brian Venua on the rush of pink salmon in Kodiak. Photo : Chignik weir. (Photo courtesy of Carl Burnside, Alaska Dept of Fish and Game)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Ashlyn O'Hara reports on a sport fishing roundtable all around king salmon from KDLL, and KNBA's Rhonda McBride about a subsistence win on the Kuskokwim. Photo: A panel at the Kenai River Sportfishing Association’s Kenai Classic Roundtable in Soldotna, Aug. 21, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Seaweed could be is the secret ingredient in cement, according to Bellamy Pailthorp of KNKX, Wali Rana reports on the new processor in Savoonga courtesy of KNOM, and Resurrection Creek is nearly restored, story by KDLL's Hunter Morrison. Photo: Resurrection Creek in the Chugach National Forest

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KUCB's Theo Greenly reports on Bryce Edgmon's dire warning for fishing communities, Avery Ellfeldt tells of an outcry to control Southeast sea otters, from the studio of KHNS, and sport fishing for sockeye was stellar on the Kenai River, according to KDLL"s Hunter Morrison. Photo: A sea otter floats on its back. (Photo by The...

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KDLG's Kendra Hannah provides a two-way with economist Gunnar Knapp on processors pulling out of Bristol Bay, Hannah Weaver of KFSK reports on a Petersburg hydroelectric plant that's trying to share water with a hatchery, and Alaska Public Media's Eric Stone on Metlakatla's fight for extended fishing rights.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KHNS's Avery Ellfeldt has a story on a new insurance option for Alaska fishermen, king salmon sport fishing for out-of-state residents is back on, according to Olivia Rose of KFSK, Evan Erickson reports on a new policy brief about crashing Yukon salmon stocks for KYUK, and a Kodiak fisherman has been fined over a million dollars for p...

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Alaska Public Media's Eliza Dunn reports on dipnetting at Ship Creek, KMXT's Davis Hovey on a kelp hatchery, and KDLG's Kendra Hanna on potential safety data gaps for commercial fishermen.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Hannah Weaver of KFSK reports on the search for unwanted crustaceans on the shores of Mitkof Island, Ben Townsend goes off to Salmon Lake, at the behest of KNOM, and Hannah Weaver does double duty with a story on disappointing subsistence salmon fishing on the Stikine River. Photo: A European green crab. Credit: Emily Grason, Washington S...

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KDLG's Kendra Hanna reports on net recycling in Dillingham, Hunter Morrison of KDLL spotlights a veteran fisherman and his conservation concerns, and KSTK's Colette Czarnecki visits the Mariner's Memorial in Wrangell. Photo: Part of the wall at the Wrangell Mariners’ Memorial on May 12, 2025. (Colette Czarnecki/KSTK)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KDLG's Margaret Sutherland and Kendra Hanna tag team on a tandem of stories about Bristol Bay rescues, and Kanesia McGlashan-Price of KUCB reports that the new weir in Unalaska is working fine this year. Photo: The Iliuliuk Lake weir is located behind the Unalaska Senior Center, between the newer pedestrian bridge and the vehicle brid...