The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXT

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:

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)

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:

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.

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:
KUCB's Andy Lusk contributes a story on the winding down of pollock's "B' season, as uncertainty clouds the waters, plus Dr. Bob Foy!

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:

KFSK's Olivia Rose breaks down the slicing of the Pacific Salmon Treaty pie, Ben Townsend reports on chum bycatch mitigation efforts from KNOM, and author Mary Dinon talks to Margaret Sutherland of KDLG about her book The Winter Watchman’s Daughter.

Photo: The new regs “uncouple” the state’s King Salmon Management Plan from some limitations of the Pacific Salmon Treaty, and allow the Department of Fish & Game to adjust sport bag limits — and expectations — in mid-season. (Flickr photo/Kegger)

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KUCB's Theo Greenly reports on "unprecedented" measures from Fish and Game to protect Gulf of Alaska chinook salmon, Katherine Rose of KCAW on a lower than expected harvest level for Southeast chinook fishermen, and possible changes are coming to the system that supplies data from marine weather buoys, according to KMXT's Davis Hovey.

Photo: King salmon caught in spring commercial troll fisheries. (Photo courtesy of Matt Lichtenstein)

This week KCAW's Katherine Rose reports that harvest data for Sitka's herring fishery won't be released due to low participation, Cook Inlet's east side setnetters won't get a chance to use seines after all, according to KDLL's Ashlyn O'Hara, and from the Alaska Desk, Theo Greenly reports that Alaska's seafood industry is asking for federal push back against unfair international competition.

Photo: Amber Every (center) directs tractors pulling in a seine net holding sockeye salmon on a beach site on Thursday, July 18, 2024 near Kenai, Alaska. (Ashlyn O'Hara/KDLL)

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Alaska Public Media's Casey Grove talks to the Northern Journal's Nat Herz about the state's ill advised investment in Peter Pan, KMXT's Davis Hovey reports on new fishery disaster declarations, and Alaska Fish and Game has grim news for Kodiak salmon fishermen.

Photo: Peter Pan Seafood's processing plant in Dillingham, AK. (Margaret Sutherland/KDLG)