The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXT

On this week's Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KUCB's Andy Lusk on the Fishermen's Memorial in Unalaska, Jack Darrell of KRBD reports that the deadline for comment on ESA listing for Gulf of Alaska king salmon has been extended, Alaska Public Media's Wesley Early on the Ship Creek shutdown for king fishing, Jessie Sheldon reports of a fire on the new processor in Bristol...

On this week's Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KFSK's Hannah Flor tells of this season's Southeast salmon scene, Ashlyn O'Hara reports on the start of dip netting on the Kasilof River for KDLL , and KDLG's Jack Darrell offers an audio postcard from Bristol Bay. Photo:

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...

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&#39...

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...

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 C...

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/NOA...

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. An...

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 upgra...

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...

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 palac...

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...

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...

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.

Alaska Fisheries Report 22 February 2024

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 fil...

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.