This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KDLG's Kendra Hanna reports on net recycling in Dillingham, Hunter Morrison of KDLL spotlights a veteran fisherman and his conservation concerns, and KSTK's Colette Czarnecki visits the Mariner's Memorial in Wrangell. Photo: Part of the wall at the Wrangell Mariners’ Memorial on May 12, 2025. (Colette Czarnecki/KSTK)
This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KDLG's Margaret Sutherland and Kendra Hanna tag team on a tandem of stories about Bristol Bay rescues, and Kanesia McGlashan-Price of KUCB reports that the new weir in Unalaska is working fine this year. Photo: The Iliuliuk Lake weir is located behind the Unalaska Senior Center, between the newer pedestrian bridge and the vehicle bridge. (Kanesia McGlashan-Price/KUCB)
This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KUCB's Theo Greenly reports that Unalaska has finally started to see some crab disaster money, KDLG's Kendra Hannah on a prediction of bigger fish in the Bay this year, from KBBI Simon Lopez reports that Alaskans will be able to harvest dungies in Cook Inlet, and efforts to map the Pacific herring genome are underway, according to Desiree Hagen of KOTZ. Photo: Dungeness crab.
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.
This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: 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)
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: 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.)
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 lim...
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 sit...
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)
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: This week KFSK's Olivia Rose reports that the Board of Fish has increased the likelihood of a Red Crab season in Southeast, Theo Greenly of KUCB on the Governor's bill that would allow fin fish farming, and Desiree Hagen on a coalition that united to distribute salmon in Kotzebue. Photo: Red king crab are emptied from the pot to the measuring station during the annual Southeast survey aboard R/V Medeia. (ADF&G)
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Board of Fish says no way to a herring closure in Promisla Bay, story by KCAW's Katherine Rose, KDLL's Ashlyn O'Hara reports on a clampdown on king fishing on the Kenai and Kasilof, and KUCB's Theo Greenly on the great debate about the rate of chum taken presently in the pollock fishery out in the Bering Sea. Photo: Chum salmon. (Stori Oates/NOAA Fisheries)
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: This week more action from the Board of Fisheries meeting in Ketchikan, as KCAW's Katherine Rose reports on a lower harvest level for Sitka's herring fishery, and Robert Woolsey tells of new options for Sitka's subsistence sockeye slingers, also from the studios of KCAW. Herring boats in Sitka. (Visit Sitka)
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KCAW's Robert Woolsey reports on Board of Fisheries decisions about king salmon access for Southeast Alaska anglers, and the output of the Southeast's salmon hatcheries. Photo: Coho salmon smolt at the Medvejie Hatchery, located near Sitka, Alaska. Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association. (Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association)
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KRBD's Jack Darrell reports that the Board of Fish isn't quite ready to open squid fishing in Southeast, The snow crab is starting to flow into Unalaska, according to Maggie Nelson of KUCB, and federal regulators are considering a chum salmon cap in the Bering Sea pollock fishery, story by KUCB's Theo Greenly. Photo: Photo: Magister Armhook Squid. (NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center.)
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KRBD's Jack Darrell reports on what is on the plate of the Board of Fisheries at their meeting in Ketchikan. One proposal they will weigh would reduce hatchery output in Southeast, as reported by Collette Czarnecki of KSTK. And Ashlyn O'Hara tells of a Kenai couple who fish for sockeye without killing a single king salmon.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KCAW's Katherine Rose reports that the Sitka Fish and Game Advisory Committee is against herring fishing in Promisla Bay after all, The Aleut Community of St. Paul has signed a joint management agreement with the federal government, according to Theo Greenly of KUCB, and Davis Hovey tells of a sped-up fishery disaster system from the studios of KMXT. Photo: Herring roe on hemlock branches. (KCAW photo / Enrique Pérez de la Rosa)...
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: the Juneau Assembly voted to oppose a Board of Fish proposition to limit Southeast Alaska hatchery production, story by KTOO's Yvonne Krumrey, Kodiak's tanner season has started, according to KMXT's Brian Venua, plus Andy Lusk and Maggie Nelson report on a snow crab processing deal for public radio KUCB, whose Sofia Stuart-Rasi reports about genetic diversity among populations of red king crab. Photo: Red king crab on the deck of a rese...
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT's Davis Hovey reports on a possible funding boost for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, for KUHB and the Alaska Desk Patrick Gilchrist reports that Tribes are preparing for possible action on chum salmon bycatch, and Theo Greenly of KUCB reports St. Paul is proceeding with a new plan for conserving its marine resources. Photo: St. Paul, Alaska.
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Happy New Year! This week we look back at two stories from the past year: Theo Greenly's about the scrum surrounding chum bycatch, produced at KUCB, plus Meg Duff's story for KDLG about the Supreme Court's decision to reverse the "Chevron deference." Photo: The Bering Sea pollock fleet has been at the center of the western Alaska salmon debate. Hope McKenney/KUCB
This week on the Alaska Fisheires Report with Terry Haines: Davis Hovey of KMXT reports that the Governor plans to fund the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute next year, Brian Venua, also from KMXT, tells us that Trident's Kodiak plant has officially changed hands, Southeast crab fisheries open February 17th, according to Olivia Rose of KFSK, and Ashlyn O'Hara reports that Kenai has finally banked fishery disaster money after years of waiting.
On this week's Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Double-duty Davis Hovey provides reports on meetings of the Alaska Seafood Task Force and Alaska Board of Fisheries from his base at KMXT, and KDLG's Margaret Sutherland tells of a settlement in a class-action lawsuit against two seafood processors over alleged wage violations. Photo: Troll caught chinook salmon. Matt Lichtenstein
