This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Regional Fishery Management Councils have been tasked with recommending ways to made fisheries more productive. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has closed the Ninilchik River to sportfishing. KFSK's Hannah Weaver reports on a partnership between a hatchery and a hydroelectric powerplant, and on a flare disposal program. And KUCB's Theo Greenly tells of lean times for the North Pacific Fishery Management Council.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:

Brian Venua peers through his monocle to chronicle one crabber's journey to DC for KMXT, the Fishery Management Council of the North Pacific still won't be specific about a chum collar for Bering Sea pollock trawlers, according to reporting from KYUK's Evan Erickson, and Samantha Watson's relation of her participation in a Kuskokwim salmon celebration, with the story creation and audio preparation at KYUK.

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The Alaska Desk's Avery Ellfeldt reports on legislation that could make it easier for fishermen to get insurance, Olivia Rose sits down with the CEO of Silver Bay Seafoods for KHNS, and KUCB's Theo Greenly tells of a funding fight that is uniting environmentalists with fishermen.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Evan Erickson provides a grim preview of the Yukon salmon season for KYUK, KMXT's Brian Venua reports on the sentencing of a Kodiak crab fisherman, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has reduced the daily limit for rockfish in Cook Inlet, and a nine-year-old has won the Sitka Salmon Derby, according to KCAW's Robert Woolsey.

Photot: Rockfish (ADF&G)

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Davis Hovey reports on the Ocean Pasture Restoration project. Will it fly, or is it a pie in the sky? Plus a maritime audio postcard from Andy Lusk of KUCB.

Photo: Coral reef in Tubbataha Natural Park. (Wikipedia.)

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This week features double reports from Theo Greenly of KUAC, the first on a glimmer of hope for KIng Cove, and the second on the uncertain effects of tariffs on US seafood. Plus the AK On Board Crew Training Program!

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:KUCB's Maggie Nelson reports on the FISH Act, numbers and growth rates for Pacific halibut are historically low, and the Northern Journal's Nat Herz talks to KCAW's Robert Woolsey about yet another lawsuit from the Wild Fish Conservancy.

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Dr. Mike Litzow on the state of Bering Sea crab fisheries!

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:

KUCB's Sofia Stuart-Rasi reports on the halting of a program to test mollusks in the Aleutians for paralytic shellfish poisoning, Sheefish could be on the rise, according to KOTZ's Desiree Hagen, and the arrival of the hooligan in Haines is covered by Avery Ellfeldt for KHNS.

Photo: Tony Strong holds two eulachon, or “hooligan” (Photo by Claire Stremple/KHNS)

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KMXT's Davis Hovey reports that Alaska's Fish and Game Commissioner is in favor of a bill that would allow finfish farming, Hunter Morrison of KDLL on Cook Inletkeeper's plan to use habitat mapping to preserve salmon habitat, and the commercial fishing industry is worried about cuts to NOAA, according to KUCB's Theo Greenly.