The OBI Seafoods cannery in Petersburg hit 100,000 cases of fish canned on August 5th, four days earlier than last year; Trident Seafoods announced over the weekend that it will pay just 20 cents per pound for chums and will stop buying salmon altogether from most of the state; Petersburg's hostpital board approved its operating budget for 2024 at its meeting at the end of June; Southeast Alaska is expected to have its first big storm of the season over the weekend; the normally calm waters of the Turnagain Arm create a twice daily wave that attracts surfers from all over.