USCG Press Release
JUNEAU, Alaska — Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crews rescued 11 fishermen from two different vessels near Kodiak Wednesday morning. Read more->
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Fish and Game area management biologist Heather Fitch says there are more than 8000 snow crab pots out on the fishing ground right now. They cost at least a thousand dollars each, so that’s more than $8 million worth of gear. And Fitch says almost all of the pots are north of 56.5 degrees. The ice was already at that latitude east of the Pribilof islands today and it’s forecast to move in quickly to the west. Kathleen Cole is an ice forecaster for the National Weather Service in Anchorage. She says that’s unusual. Read full story at KUCB.org: By Charlie Bermant | PENINSULA DAILY NEWS By Kimberly Nicoletti | SUMMIT DAILY NEWS Thursday, TLC premieres the Breckenridge family’s real-life commercial fishing business in Alaska, and the family admits TLC didn’t have to manipulate its “characters” to deliver a compelling seven-week series that depicts the extreme highs and lows of commercial fishing in Alaska — and some of the tense family dynamics accompanying the Anderson’s family business. Jill Burke | ALASKA DISPATCH Read the full article in the Alaska Dispatch. By Craig Welch | SEATTLE TIMES Atlantic salmon in two sea pens at a fish farm in central Chile struggled that summer with a common bacteria. So workers injected the lethargic fish with antibiotics. Still the salmon developed tumors and lesions. Their livers and kidneys failed. Within weeks more than 70 percent were dead, and other salmon at nearby farms were sick, too. By William Yardley | NEW YORK TIMES SEATTLE — The scientist in Canada got the results from a respected lab and held a news conference. The ice and bait man at a fish processor in Sitka, Alaska, heard the news on Facebook. Vardon Tremain read it in the newspaper while working on his trolling boat docked here in Salmon Bay. More scientists in Washington started talking, and 24 hours later everyone is asking more questions. As word spread that infectious salmon anemia, a deadly virus that has devastated farmed fish in Chile, had been found for the first time in prized wild Pacific salmon, there remained much uncertainty about the finding and what its potential impact could be.  USCG Cutter Munro with illegal fishing vessel Bangun Perkasa USCG press release The Bangun Perkasa’s crew reportedly abandoned their fishing nets and attempted to leave the area once they spotted the helicopter flying above them. The vessel was determined to be operating without valid flag state registration, and seized as a stateless vessel for violations of U.S. law. A Munro boarding team determined the vessel had more than 10 miles of drift net, 30 tons of squid and approximately 30 shark carcasses aboard. They retrieved the abandoned net and began the lengthy escort toward Dutch Harbor, Alaska. USCG Press Release Marie Laws, a resident of Sitka, received a Coast Guard Meritorious Public Service Award for her role in the rescue of Helvig Christensen from the wreckage of the fishing vessel Dixie near Chichagof Island on Nov. 18, 1950. She accepted the award on behalf of her sister and cousin, Betty Mork and Tom Allain, who assisted with the rescue. Laws is the only living member of the rescue party. Read the full story at USCGnews.com.  Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Lisa Murkowski will be a leader of the new bipartisan Senate Oceans Caucus when it assembles for the first time tomorrow, with the remaining co-chairs to be named at the event. “It’s an honor to be a leader of this caucus, on behalf of the only state bordering two oceans,” said Senator Murkowski. “The oceans are more than beautiful and important natural gifts, they are our farms, our factories of growth – and our future.” Read more-> By Dan Joling | ASSOCIATED PRESS  A seiner makes a set in Peril Strait HAINES–Gilnetters in Haines have been complaining recently about low catch numbers, and are blaming ADF&G for allowing the southeast region northern seine fleet to intercept fish before they have a chance to enter Lynn Canal. According to ADF&G’s 2011 Preliminary Alaska Commercial Salmon Catch “Blue Sheet,” updated on August 26, 2011, the northern southeast seine fleet harvested nearly 45 million pinks and 226,000 sockeye. Read more->  Haines Harbor HAINES–The Haines Borough Assembly met Tuesday evening as a committee of the whole, to discuss proposed changes to Title 16 of the Haines Borough Code, “Harbors.” Much of the one-hour meeting was consumed by presentations by Haines Harbormaster Ed Barrett and Boat Harbor Advisory Committee members Bill Rostad and Jim Studley, who presented the assembly with a proposed rewrite of Haines Borough Code Title 16. Read more-> Laine Welch “Pinks, chums and sockeyes all are going to be under forecast,” said Geron Bruce, deputy director of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s commercial fisheries division. For sockeyes, the big-money fish, that’s due to a disappointing take of 20 million sockeyes from Bristol Bay, 8 million shy of projections. Alaska salmon prices remain high. By Beth Bragg | ADN  NOAA photo By Mike Dunham | ADN The call came in around 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Moran said. Boats taking tourists on whale viewing trips spotted the calf and its mother in Lynn Canal near the Shrine of St. Therese, a Catholic retreat north of Juneau. A buoy bobbed between the whales and it looked as if they might be ensnarled with the line. The lab’s “large whale disentanglement team” — both scientists and non-scientific staff — was on the water by 10 a.m. Craig Medred | ALASKA DISPATCH That was the best Glenn Merrill, assistant regional administrator for the National Marine Fisheries Service, could offer charter boat skippers facing imposition of what is being called a “halibut catch sharing” plan. By Alexandra Gutierrez | kucb.org The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released their annual stock assessment report today. While the East Coast continues to struggle with overfishing, commercial stocks in the Pacific Ocean remain abundant and healthy overall. Alaska’s stocks seem to be in particularly good shape by comparison. NOAA lists 40 stocks as subject to overfishing, and not one of those is in Alaska waters. Read more at KUCB.org.  The burned out hull of the 58-foot fishing vessel Legend sits grounded at Bostwick Point eight miles south of Ketchikan July 11, 2011 JUNEAU–The Coast Guard is responding to the grounding and a subsequent fire aboard the 58-foot fishing vessel Legend at Bostwick Point about eight miles south of Ketchikan Monday. A Coast Guard Station Ketchikan small boat crew with Marine Safety Detachment Ketchikan pollution investigators aboard assessed the Legend Monday morning and reported the approximately 700 gallons of diesel and a catch of 2,000 pounds of salmon aboard were consumed by the fire. Read more->  An R&R Diving crew assesses the sunken 36-foot fishing vessel Ice Maiden off Rocky Point in Prince William Sound USCG Press Release: The 36-foot Ice Maiden capsized at approximately 1 p.m. Sunday while retrieving a net full of salmon. All four of the crewmembers were able to evacuate to the vessel’s seine skiff prior to the capsizing. The good Samaritan fishing vessels New Venture and Aquanator were fishing in the area and provided assistance, including transportation to Cordova, for the crew of the Seward-based Ice Maiden. Read more-> by Ed Ronco | KCAW Three-part story: Robert Woolsey | KCAW Read/Listen to full story at KRBD.org Associated Press | ADN By Margaret Bauman | BRISTOL BAY TIMES Preliminary harvest summaries released today by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game put the commercial catch at 3,130,000 sockeye salmon, 862,000 chums, 55,000 kings, 44,000 pinks and 3,000 cohos, a total of 4,094,000 wild Alaska salmon. Fisheries economists are predicting a good year price wise too… Read full article at Alaska Newspapers, Inc.  Senator Lisa Murkowski Murkowski press release “Right now, the way this fishery finance program works is that we penalize fishermen in the wallet just as they’re trying to retire,” said Murkowski, the lead Republican sponsor of the bill. “By making a necessary change to existing law, we’re giving them a one-time opportunity to leave the program and not be forced to spend money unnecessarily.” Read more-> |
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