By Editor, on April 16th, 2012 From Rep. Bill Thomas:
HAINES–The Alaska Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation will be hosting a public workshop on April 17, 2012 at the American Bald Eagle Foundation in Haines from 6:00 – 8:00 pm. The purpose of the workshop is to gather public input on Chilkoot River corridor management recommendations and improvements planned for the area. There will be representatives from various agencies available at the workshop to answer questions and discuss corridor concerns.
To learn more about the project, visit:
http://dnr.alaska.gov/parks/plans/chilkootlk/chilkootriver.htm
By Editor, on January 25th, 2012 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->
By Editor, on January 25th, 2012  By Stephanie Joyce | KUCB
Rapidly advancing sea ice has left crabbers scrambling to get their gear out of the water or stuck in port, waiting for better weather.
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:
http://www.kucb.org/post/ice-puts-snow-crab-season-hold
By Editor, on January 10th, 2012 By Charlie Bermant | PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND, WA—An explosion aboard a 56-foot commercial fishing vessel docked in Boat Haven on Monday morning shook local windows and rattled walls but caused no injuries or damages to the adjacent boats— which included the Coast Guard cutter Osprey.
Read full story in the Peninsula Daily News.
By Editor, on December 29th, 2011 By Kimberly Nicoletti | SUMMIT DAILY NEWS
While some participants on reality shows accuse producers of cutting and slicing minute pieces in such a cutthroat way as to make the final cut overly dramatic, the Andersons say TLC didn’t have to do that: Their life is that dramatic.
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.
Read full article in the Summit Daily News.
By Editor, on December 20th, 2011 Jill Burke | ALASKA DISPATCH
It’s nearly guaranteed to be a monumental showdown, the kind Alaska seems to spawn regularly. On Wednesday, a handful of lawyers will volley before a federal judge over whether the U.S. government properly chose to shut down cod and mackerel fisheries in Southwest Alaska, giving the well being of an endangered marine mammal preference over the livelihood of scores of fisherman.
Read the full article in the Alaska Dispatch.
By Editor, on October 24th, 2011 By Craig Welch | SEATTLE TIMES
To understand why scientists were so alarmed last week to see a potentially lethal fish virus surface in two sockeye, consider what happened in South America in 2007.
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.
Read full article in the Seattle Times.
By Editor, on October 20th, 2011 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.
Read more in the New York Times.
By Editor, on October 2nd, 2011  USCG Cutter Munro with illegal fishing vessel Bangun Perkasa USCG press release
Acting on vessel sighting information provided by a maritime patrol airplane from the Fisheries Agency of Japan, Sept. 7, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro launched its MH-65 Dolphin helicopter and crew and located the fishing vessel Bangun Perkasa with 22 fishermen aboard, approximately 2,600 miles southwest of Kodiak, Alaska.
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.
Read the whole story at the USCG News website.
By Editor, on September 21st, 2011 USCG Press Release
JUNEAU, Alaska — Members of Coast Guard Air Station Sitka, Sector Juneau and the Alaska Department of Public Safety recognized three Alaska residents for their role in the 1950 rescue of a fisherman stranded off Chichagof Island during an awards ceremony, Sept. 13, 2011.
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.
By Editor, on September 12th, 2011  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 Editor, on September 2nd, 2011 By Dan Joling | ASSOCIATED PRESS
Federal fisheries managers should weigh the economic impact before approving a Pacific halibut allocation plan that could reduce the number of fish caught by sport anglers on charter boats, an Alaska lawmaker said Thursday.
Read the full story in the Anchorage Daily News.
By Roger Maynard, on August 31st, 2011  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->
By Roger Maynard, on August 24th, 2011  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->
By Editor, on August 23rd, 2011 Laine Welch
Alaska’s salmon season is in the home stretch, and the final tally will fall well short of the predicted 203 million fish.
“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.
Read Laines Welch’s column in the Anchorage Daily News.
By Editor, on August 22nd, 2011 By Beth Bragg | ADN
A 26-pound, 11-ounce coho, caught in the Pacific Ocean by a California man earlier this week shattered one of the state’s oldest sport-fishing records. According to KINY Radio in Juneau, Steve Atkinson of Huntington Beach was fishing near Icy Strait when he hooked the record-breaker.
Read more in the Anchorage Daily News.
By Editor, on August 20th, 2011  NOAA photo By Mike Dunham | ADN
Federal officials spent the better part of Wednesday near Juneau trying to remove a buoy line from a 5-month old humpback whale.
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.
Read full story in the Anchorage Daily News.
By Editor, on August 14th, 2011 Craig Medred | ALASKA DISPATCH
HOMER — A packed room of angry and worried small businessmen fearful the federal government is about to bankrupt them got some simple advice Friday night on how to deal with the Washington, D.C. bureaucracy: “Send a letter.”
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.
Read full article in the Alaska Dispatch.
By Editor, on July 15th, 2011 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.
Read NOAA Press Release.
By Editor, on July 12th, 2011  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->
By Editor, on July 7th, 2011  An R&R Diving crew assesses the sunken 36-foot fishing vessel Ice Maiden off Rocky Point in Prince William Sound USCG Press Release:
VALDEZ–Personnel from Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Valdez responded to the capsizing and sinking of the fishing vessel Ice Maiden near Rocky Point in Prince William Sound Sunday and continue to monitor the response.
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 Editor, on July 6th, 2011 by Ed Ronco | KCAW
SITKA, ALASKA (2011-07-05) The Chichagof Island city of Pelican has long prided itself on being “closest to the fish.” Its placement in Lisianski Inlet made it an ideal spot for fishermen to drop off their catch and quickly head back out to the fishing grounds. That’s how Pelican started in 1938, when Charlie Raatikainen, aboard the fishing vessel “Pelican,” established a cold storage facility here. But that complex is now closed, and as a result, the local economy has suffered.
Three-part story:
Read Part I, “Pelican struggles with absent fish economy,” at KCAW.org.
Read Part II, “Pelican residents persevere” at KCAW.org.
Read Part III, “Ice, hydro power shape Pelican’s future” at KCAW.org.
By Editor, on June 28th, 2011 Robert Woolsey | KCAW
SITKA, ALASKA (2011-06-27) The death of two Yakutat residents last week (6-20-11) brings to seven the number of commercial fishermen killed this year in Alaska – and the season is just getting started. The fact that all seven lost their lives in open boats – and all were wearing life jackets — has caught the attention of agencies involved in marine safety. There is consensus that it’s time for renewed focus on safety training for the small-boat fleet.
Read/Listen to full story at KRBD.org
By Editor, on June 21st, 2011 Associated Press | ADN
JUNEAU — The Coast Guard says two people died when a 20-foot commercial fishing boat capsized late Monday near Yakutat. A third person was rescued.
Read more in the Anchorage Daily News
By Editor, on June 19th, 2011 By Margaret Bauman | BRISTOL BAY TIMES
What a difference a week makes!
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.
Read ADF&G 2011 Inseason Alaska Commercial Salmon Summary
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