This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Board of Fish says no way to a herring closure in Promisla Bay, story by KCAW's Katherine Rose, KDLL's Ashlyn O'Hara reports on a clampdown on king fishing on the Kenai and Kasilof, and KUCB's Theo Greenly on the great debate about the rate of chum taken presently in the pollock fishery out in the Bering Sea.

Photo: Chum salmon. (Stori Oates/NOAA Fisheries)

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This week more action from the Board of Fisheries meeting in Ketchikan, as KCAW's Katherine Rose reports on a lower harvest level for Sitka's herring fishery, and Robert Woolsey tells of new options for Sitka's subsistence sockeye slingers, also from the studios of KCAW.

Herring boats in Sitka. (Visit Sitka)

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KCAW's Robert Woolsey reports on Board of Fisheries decisions about king salmon access for Southeast Alaska anglers, and the output of the Southeast's salmon hatcheries.

Photo: Coho salmon smolt at the Medvejie Hatchery, located near Sitka, Alaska. Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association. (Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association)

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KRBD's Jack Darrell reports that the Board of Fish isn't quite ready to open squid fishing in Southeast, The snow crab is starting to flow into Unalaska, according to Maggie Nelson of KUCB, and federal regulators are considering a chum salmon cap in the Bering Sea pollock fishery, story by KUCB's Theo Greenly.

Photo: Photo: Magister Armhook Squid. (NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center.)

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KRBD's Jack Darrell reports on what is on the plate of the Board of Fisheries at their meeting in Ketchikan. One proposal they will weigh would  reduce hatchery output in Southeast, as reported by Collette Czarnecki of KSTK. And Ashlyn O'Hara tells of a Kenai couple who fish for sockeye without killing a single king salmon.

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KCAW's Katherine Rose reports that the Sitka Fish and Game Advisory Committee is against herring fishing in Promisla Bay after all, The Aleut Community of St. Paul has signed a joint management agreement with the federal government, according to Theo Greenly of KUCB, and Davis Hovey tells of a sped-up fishery disaster system from the studios of KMXT.

Photo: Herring roe on hemlock branches. (KCAW photo / Enrique Pérez de la Rosa)

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: the Juneau Assembly voted to oppose a Board of Fish proposition to limit Southeast Alaska hatchery production, story by KTOO's Yvonne Krumrey, Kodiak's tanner season has started, according to KMXT's Brian Venua, plus Andy Lusk and Maggie Nelson report on a snow crab processing deal for public radio KUCB, whose Sofia Stuart-Rasi reports about genetic diversity among populations of red king crab.

Photo: Red king crab on the deck of a research vessel. Credit: NOAA Fisheries / Erin Fedewa

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KMXT's Davis Hovey reports on a possible funding boost for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, for KUHB and the Alaska Desk Patrick Gilchrist reports that Tribes are preparing for possible action on chum salmon bycatch, and Theo Greenly of KUCB reports St. Paul is proceeding with a new plan for conserving its marine resources.

Photo: St. Paul, Alaska.

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Happy New Year! This week we look back at two stories from the past year: Theo Greenly's about the scrum surrounding chum bycatch, produced at KUCB, plus Meg Duff's story for KDLG about the Supreme Court's decision to reverse the "Chevron deference."

Photo: The Bering Sea pollock fleet has been at the center of the western Alaska salmon debate. Hope McKenney/KUCB

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Davis Hovey of KMXT reports that the Governor plans to fund the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute next year, Brian Venua, also from KMXT, tells us that Trident's Kodiak plant has officially changed hands, Southeast crab fisheries open February 17th, according to Olivia Rose of KFSK, and Ashlyn O'Hara reports that Kenai has finally banked fishery disaster money after years of waiting.