This week on the Alaska Fisheres Report with Terry Haines: Meredith Redick reports on fish tracking with eDNA for KCAW, The Yukon River Intertribal Fish Commission hits the Federal Subsistence Board with a Special Action Request, story by KUAC's Dan Bross,and Alaska Public Media's Wesley Early talks to historian Bathsheba Demuth about her trip along the Yukon River.

Photo: Skiffs line the lower Yukon River. Olivia Ebertz/KYUK

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KCAW's Katherine Rose takes us on a tour of the Japanese herring scene, Jack Darrell reports that Silver Bay Seafoods will be acquiring Trident's Ketchikan plant, and a Shelby Herbert dispatch tells of Trident's sale of its Petersburg properties to E.C. Phillips & Son.

Photo: Sushi chef Kodai Sanada prepares omakase at his eight seat sushi bar in Otaru. During herring season, Sanada will prepare a couple of local Hokkaido herring at each omakase sitting, but he doesn’t typically serve herring egg sushi (KCAW/Rose)

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Boat wiring, with Art Schultz, plus in another blast from the past Dylan Simard reports on the suicide half dollar powered by saxitoxin.

Photo: Saxitoxin dipped suicide silver dollar.

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Brian Venua reports on cuts to the halibut quota, plus an evergreen piece on deadly algal blooms.

Photo: A red tide off the coast of California. Algal blooms are especially common during the summer months, and are the cause of the state’s annual mussel quarantine. (Peter Franks/Scripps Institution of Oceanography)

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This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: A report about paralytic shellfish poisoning from Alaska Public Media's Kavitha George, KBBI's Jamie Diep on the effects of ocean acidification on razor clams, and Hannah Flor reports about an electronic monitoring bill that gets a lukewarm reception from industry.

Photo: Alaska razor clams. (Jenny Neyman/KDLL)

This week KDLG's Christina Mc Dermott reports on seafood restaurant dynamics that drive low prices, Theo Greenly of KUCB on petition pushback from Unalaska, and hatchery salmon gets a hearing in the State House.

his week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Nothing is easy in the Cook Inlet EEZ, story by KDLL's Riley Board, plus Jack Darrell of KRBD on the prohibition on yelloweye fishing in Southeast Alaska. Plus: what is a pelagic performance standard, and can it be enforced?

Photo: Yelloweye rockfish. Credit: Alaska Department of Fish and Game

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:  Theo Greenly's extensive interview with Wesley Loy about the pollock TAC for KUCB, and Davis Hovey's report on the end of the Kodiak Tanner crab season from KMXT.

Photo: Factory Trawlers like the F/T Alaska Ocean, pictured here in Dutch Harbor in 2023, harvest Alaska pollock in the Bering Sea and process it onboard, producing fillets, surimi and fish oil all aboard the ship. Theo Greenly/KUCB