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. Fish and Wildlife Service)

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 Petersburg, September 2025. (Angela Denning/Coast Alaska)

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 Alaska)

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 Aquatics’ hatchery in Ketchikan. (Hunter Morrison/KRBD)