KFSK Midday Magazine

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.

As the Gulf of Alaska warms, larger populations of black cod could become a problem for Southeast salmon hatcheries;

Juneau residents displaced by record floods are being reunited with their lost belongings;

and the U.S. Forest Service says it will build 25 new cabins in the Tongass and Chugach National Forests.

Trident Seafoods dropped the price for Alaska chum salmon this weekend from 60 cents to 20 cents per pound for all fisheries;

Juneau City leaders issued a local emergency declaration on Monday night after the record flooding of the Mendenhall River;

Alaska's Congressional delegation has re-introduced legislation to make the five "Landless" communities in Alaska landless no more.

Petersburg's assembly passed one resolution to sell borough land, and yet another to appeal for more land at their meeting yesterday;

Navy warships were dispatched to the Aleutians after 11 foreign military vessels were found in the area;

and researchers are looking for dinosaur footprints on the Yukon River.

The Organized Village of Kake is building Alaska's first modern clam garden;

A Wrangell nonprofit is hosting its annual golf tournament in support of cancer patients this weekend;

and a drag performance made waves at the Southeast Alaska State Fair.

A crewman on the Petersburg seiner, Legacy, died Tuesday morning;

the Kake Dog Salmon Festival returned last weekend;

and a seafood donation program is helping families whose traditional salmon runs have crashed.

Bristol Bay crews say they're frustrated by the lack of transparency between processors and fleets;

a group of twelve Alaska Native Corporations hired their first government affairs director;

and two swimmers successfully crossed the Frederick Sound.

Petersburg residents participated in the annual Peddle-Paddle Battle to raise money for the local hospital foundation;

Young burn survivors spent a week in Ketchikan as part of a traveling summer camp;

and the Alaska Department of Public Safety launched a system that will let survivors track evidence kits used in their sexual assault cases.

The Alaska Ferry Board is drafting a 20-year plan for service across the state;

Kake is gearing up for its annual children's fishing derby;

and the numbers for the first Southeast summer troll fishery opening are in -- with chinook numbers that defy expectations.

The Community Gym portion of Petersburg's Parks and Recreation Center closed Monday for sewer line repairs; The state board of education heard nearly 3 hours of public testimony over a regulation to limit high school girls' sports in Alaska to athletes assigned female at birth; Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor signed a letter supporting states' rights to access medical information about abortion and gender-affirming care; Antiques Roadshow filmed its first ever episode in Alaska; The Mendenhall Glacier has reached its capacity for commercial tours, prompting some tourists to use Juneau city buses instead.