The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXT

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 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...

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

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...

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.