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The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 19 December 2024On 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 Lichtenstein2024-12-1914 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 12 December 2024On this week's Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:
KYUK's Margaret Sutherland reports that low prices put a damper on last year's Bristol Bay sockeye season, a new study looks at the size of chinook salmon, as reported by KYUK's Samantha Watson, and Davis Hovey of KMXT tells of an effort to encourage "ocean pastures."2024-12-1214 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 05 December 2024On this week's Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:
Excerpts from conversations in Kodiak about climate change adaptation.
Photo: Climate conversation participants. (Danielle Ringer)2024-12-0514 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 28 November 2024On this week's Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:
CoastAlaska's Angela Denning provides a statewide salmon rundown for the past season, plus KCAW's Robert Woolsey reports on surprising results from a prey survey for the Southern Resident killer whales.
Photo: A young southern resident killer whale calf (J56) carrying a dead fish between her teeth while swimming next to her mother (J31) in the Salish Sea. (photo A.W. Trites, University of British Columbia).2024-11-2814 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 14 November 2024On this week's Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:
Hunter Morrison tells of radio tagged coho for radio station KDLL, KDLG's Margaret Sutherland reports that Silver Bay will take over the former Peter Pan processing plants in Dillingham and Port Moller after all, and another strong sockeye run is in the forecast for Bristol Bay, according to the Alaska Beacon.
Photo: Radio tags for a multi-year coho salmon monitoring project are inserted into the stomach through the mouth, with an antenna that sticks out. Alaska Department off Fish and Game.
2024-11-1514 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 07 November 2024On this week's Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:
Davis Hovey of KMXT reports of a Prince William Sound herring fishery, KUCB's Theo Greenly notes the retirement of the Executive Director of At Sea Processors, public radio KDLL's Ashlyn OHara tells us that the Board of Fisheries won't be meeting in Kenai after all, and Brian Venua, reporting for KMXT, visits the Kodiak dock where fresh king crab are sold to the public.
Photo: Red king crab being sold at the dock in Kodiak. Brian Venua/KMXT2024-11-0714 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 31 October 2024On this week's Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:
Davis Hovey of KMXT tells of research being conducted in Kodiak that could help spur oyster farming, plus KRBD's Jack Darrell reports on a call to halt hooligan fishing in southern Southeast Alaska.
Photo: Louie Wagner empties a net of hooligan into his boat on the Unuk River. (Jack Darrell/KRBD)
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The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 24 October 2024On this week's Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:KBBI's Jamie Diep reports that mariculturists are optimistic about the potential upsides of a new Alaska state law. And the economic ripple effects of the sudden closure of the Central Gulf of Alaska pollock fishery are explored by KMXT's Davis Hovey.
Photo: Crew members shovel pollock onboard a trawler in 2019. Nat Herz/Alaska Public Media
2024-10-2414 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 17 October 2024On this week's Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:
Trident has sold its plant in Kodiak, the last one on its chopping block, , story from KMXT's Brian Venua, who also participates in a two way with KMXT's Davis Hovey discussing the recent fisheries debate among Alaska's Congressional candidates. And Simon Lopez adds a story about challenging times for fishermen on the southern Kenai Peninsula.
Photo: Nick Begich, Republican candidate for U.S. House, speaks during a Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024 debate in Kodiak. At center is Alaskan Independence Party candidate John Wayne Howe, and at right is...2024-10-1714 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 10 October 2024On this week's Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KUCB's Maggie Nelson reports that the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has given a green light to a snow crab season, and that Trident Seafoods is unlikely to process any of them in St. Paul. Also Katherine Rose finishes up her series of stories from Japan for KCAW with a look at the future of herring there.2024-10-1014 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 03 October 2024This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:
KMXT's Davis Hovey reports on the sudden closure of the Central Gulf pollock fishery, a story about Nikolski's salmon derby from KUCB's Sofia Stuart-Rasi, and from KNBA, Rhonda McBride tells of a lawsuit that seeks to change how the National Marine Fisheries Service manages Bering Sea pollock.
Photo: Alaska pollock make up the nation’s top-volume single-species commercial seafood catch. Alaska pollock, harvested mostly in the Bering Sea but also in the Gulf of Alaska, are processed into fish sticks, fish burgers, imitation crab meat an...2024-10-0314 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 26 September 2024This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KDLL's Ashlyn O'Hara reports on federal relief money that will finally get into the hands of Alaskan fishermen, KMXT's Brian Venua on Alaska's only crayfish derby, and Davis Hovey, also at KMXT, supplies a 2 way conversation with Nat Herz on a Peter Pan investor's successful bid for many of the troubled company's assets.
Photo: King Cove in August 2023. The Peter Pan processing facility here was among assets for which Rodger May was the successful bidder. (Theo Greenly/KUCB)2024-09-2614 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 19 September 2024This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:
KRBD's Michael Fannelli reports on a kelp conference in Ketchikan, Alaska's Fish and Game supplies data and drama to the National Marine Fisheries Service, and Jack Darrell offers a sport report for Prince of Wales Island.
Photo: Panelists discuss how to accelerate the U.S. seaweed industry for the Seagriculture conference hosted at the Ted Ferry Civic Center. (From left to right) Jim Andersen, Nichole Price, Emily Patrolia, Keolani Booth, and Alicia Bishop. (Michael Fanelli/KRBD)
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The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 12 September 2024This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Jamie Diep of KBBI reports that a namesake fish processor in Whittier has filed for bankruptcy. The book has been published containing the proposals to be considered by the Board of Fisheries in their next cycle. And KDLL's Hunter Morrison adds a story on the Kenai Silver Salmon Derby.
Photo: Whittier Seafood's processing facility | Photo courtesy of Whittier Seafood2024-09-1214 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 05 September 2024This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KOTZ's Desiree Hagen reports on the shocking crash of Kotzebue Sound chum salmon, plus The Trouble with Marimo Balls.
Photo: Marimo ball with zebra mussel visible. (Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife.)2024-09-0614 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 29 August 2024This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT's Davis Hovey reports on a warmer future for arctic waters, Shelby Herbert of KFSK on a letter from the Petersburg Assembly objecting to labeling Gulf of Alaska king salmon as endangered, which also has the Kenai River Sportfishing Association riled up, according to KDLL's Ashlyn O'Hara.
Photo: Alaska Department of Fish and Game policy advisor Dani Evenson speaks about a petition to list Gulf of Alaska king salmon as endangered during the Kenai Class Roundtable on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O'Hara/KDLL)
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The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 22 August 2024This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KFSK's Shelby Herbert reports on the lifting of a court order that would have halted the Southeast Alaska king salmon troll fishery, KRBD's Jack Darrell on the arrest of a Ketchikan man accused of stealing dungy gear, and Colette Czarnecki of KSTK tells us why a Southeast Alaska tribe wants to know how much fish Alaskans eat.2024-08-2214 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 15 August 2024This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KBBI's Jamie Diep reports about the underlying messaging at the recent Salmonfest, Jack Darrell's story for KRBD tells of millions of dollars in funding for the Metlakatla Tribe's hatchery, and OBI Seafoods in Petersburg has blown its fish whistle, according to KFSK's Olivia Schmidt.
Photo: A worker blows OBI’s steam whistle Wednesday, August 25, 2021. (Katie Anastas/KFSK)2024-08-1514 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 08 August 2024This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:
Meg Duff reports on the implications of a recent Supreme Court decision on fisheries management for KDLG, plus Coast Alaska’s Angela Denning with a look at a study on Alaska’s pink salmon hatcheries.2024-08-0814 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 01 August 2024 This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Shelby Herbert, of Public Radio KFSK, reports on Southeast Alaska salmon losing the endorsement of a Canadian conservation group, and fishermen are testing experimental gear that could allow east side Cook Inlet set net fishermen a chance to fish again, story by KDLL’s Meg Duff.2024-08-0114 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 27 July 2024This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: This week Meg Duff, reporter from KDLG, contributes two stories from Bristol Bay: the first about ever smaller fish, and the second an investigation of set net gear damaged by drift boats.2024-07-2714 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report — July 11, 2024This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Davis Hovey adds to an Alaska Beacon story
about see-saw funding for the Alaska Seafood Marketing Association, sablefish have been shown to be a single genetic population, as told by KCAW's Meredith Redick, and State Troopers from around the state are patrolling Bristol Bay, story by KDLG's Meg Duff, who also reports the
death of a fisherman there.2024-07-1814 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 04 July 2024On this week's Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KUCB's Andy Lusk on the Fishermen's Memorial in Unalaska, Jack Darrell of KRBD reports that the deadline for comment on ESA listing for Gulf of Alaska king salmon has been extended, Alaska Public Media's Wesley Early on the Ship Creek shutdown for king fishing, Jessie Sheldon reports of a fire on the new processor in Bristol Bay for KDLG, and KDLG's Meg Duff tells of king salmon from Nushagak for elders.
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The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 27 June 2024On this week's Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KFSK's Hannah Flor tells of this season's Southeast salmon scene, Ashlyn O'Hara reports on the start of dip netting on the Kasilof River for KDLL , and KDLG's Jack Darrell offers an audio postcard from Bristol Bay.
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The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 20 June 2024On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: New rules for wastewater are on the horizon here in Alaska. Supporters of Robert Kennedy Jr. have enough signatures to get him on the ballot. And herring in Northwest Alaska is still a bit of a mystery.
Photo: Pacific herring
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The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 13 June 2024On this week's Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KYUK's Evan Erickson reports on concerns from Kuskokwim residents about trawlers working near salmon streams, and KFSK"s Shelby Herbert gets help from Jack Darrell of KRBD on a deep dive into the petition to list Gulf of Alaska king salmon as endangered.
Photo: Petersburg troller Mark Roberts working on his fishing vessel, the Cape Cross, on May 24, 2024. (Photo by Shelby Herbert/KFSK)
2024-06-1414 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report o6 June 2024This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Andy Lusk of KUCB tells of Aleutian mayors and their appeal to the federal government for help during a fish market crisis, Katherine Rose reports on the Sitka Assembly backing halibut bycatch caps for KCAW, KDLL's Ashlyn O'Hara on yet another lawsuit over the Cook Inlet EEZ, and rusting rivers are the focus of a story by KOTZ's Deseree Hagen.
2024-06-0614 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 30 May 2024This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT's Brian Venua reports on a flood of Russian fish, and on Bristol Bay's new 400 foot floater, plus Sofia Stuart-Rasi of KUCB on the Qawalagin Tribe's efforts to make mussels safe again in Unalaska.
Photo: Northline’s new processing barge Hannah. (Northline image)2024-05-3014 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 23 May 2024This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT's Davis Hovey reports on a bill that would eliminate double vessel registration for fishermen, Alaska Public Media's Liz Ruskin reports on new bycatch bills from Rep. Mary Peltola, Copper River salmon season has started, according to KUAC's Dan Bross, and it is drill conductor training season for the Alaska Marine Safety Education Association.
Photo: Trainees take part in an Alaska Marine Safety Education Association exercise.
2024-05-2314 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 16 May 2024This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KDLL's Riley Board reports on higher reimbursements for Fisherman's Fund, thanks to new legislation, KSTK's Collette Czarnecki on the closing of the chinook subsistence fishery on the Stikine River, the Alaska Beacon on a state seafood task force, Alaska Public Media's Rachel Cassandra on fish making the WIC-list, plus a Climate Scenarios Workshop is coming to Kodiak.
Photo: The Stikine River empties into the ocean near Wrangell. (Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News)
2024-05-1614 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 09 May 2024This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Robert Woolsey reports on new management for the Little Port Walter chinook hatchery for KCAW, Dan Bross files a report on federal management of Yukon River salmon, and a Kodiak forecast for the commercial salmon season from KMXT's Davis Hovey.
Photo: NOAA’s Little Port Walter Research Station (LPW). Credit: Heather Fulton-Bennett/NOAA Fisheries.
2024-05-0914 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 02 May 2024This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:
KDLL's Riley Board reports on the federal disaster declaration for
setnetters on the east side of Upper Cook Inlet and on the final rule
for federal management of salmon fisheries in the Upper Cook's EEZ. Crab fishermen were charged in federal court for illegal transport of crab, as reported by CoastAlaska's Angela Denning. And for KFSK Hannah Flor reports on a proposal to change how a popular run of hatchery king salmon near Petersburg is managed,
Photo: A 45.8-pound king sits...2024-05-0214 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 18 April 2024This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KUCB’s Theo Greenly reports on the clamor over chum bycatch, and on Peter Pan’s mic drop, plus both Senator Sullivan and Commissioner Vincent-Lang have markets on their minds, stories by Brian Venua of KMXT.
2024-04-2614 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 25 April 2024his week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Anna Canny looks at the effects of climate change on Gulf of Alaska harvesters for KTOO, Nat Herz of Northern Journal on efforts by the Alaska Senate to help smaller fish processors, Jack Darrell of KRBD reports that Trident's Ketchikan plant has changed hands, and Sitka's Seafood Producer's Cooperative will get an energy upgrade, with federal help, as reported by KCAW.
Photo: Seafood Producers Cooperative workers processing fish.
2024-04-2614 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 11 April 2024This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: North Peninsula dungeness season is about to open, as reported by Andy Lusk and Sofia Stuart-Rasi of KUCB, KFSK's Shelby Herbert reports that Trident has finalized sale of its Petersburg plant,Silver Bay is stepping into Peter Pan's shoes, according to Theo Greenly of KUCB, Jack Darrell tells of the reopening of the Annette Island Packing Company for KRBD, Dan Bross of KUAC documented an agreement between governments to quit king fishing in the Yukon, and KFSK's Hannah Flor reports on a federal grant for planning the transition to...2024-04-1114 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 04 April 2024This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Davis Hovey reports that the only salmon buyer in Kodiak's Alitak Bay is pulling out just before the summer season begins, Brian Venua offers a story on new funding for mapping harmful algal blooms on the Oscar Dyson, and then Davis Hovey is back with a sad tale of herring gone unharvested, all produced in the shining production palaces of KMXT.
Photo: NOAA research vessel Oscar_Dyson_(R_224)
2024-04-0414 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 28 March 2024This 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
2024-03-2814 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 21 March 2024This 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)
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The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 14 March 2024This 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.
2024-03-1514 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 07 March 2024This 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)
2024-03-0714 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 29 February 2024This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Senator
Murkowski tells KCAW the Wild Fish Conservancy is off course, KDLG’s Christina McDermott reports on a big federal fish purchase, Anna Canny tells of tricky conditions for fish surveys on behalf of KTOO, and KDLL’s own Hunter Morrison contributes a tale of twice used fishing line.
2024-03-0514 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 14 February 2024This 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)
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The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 01 February 2024his 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
2024-02-0114 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 25 January 2024This 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
2024-01-2514 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 18 January, 2024This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: At the Alaska Board of Fisheries meeting in Kodiak compromises are
crushed, but gear gets an update for set net salmon fishermen.
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The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 11 January 2024This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KYUK's Evan Erickson reports on the appointment of three Alaska Native members to the Advisory Panel of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, and KDLG's Christina McDermott sits down with AMSEA executive director Leann Cyr to talk about mental health among fishers.
2024-01-1114 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 04 January 2024This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Its the second equally shameless installment of the year in the rear view mirror.
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The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 28 December 2023This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT's Brian Venua reports on Trident's downsizing in Alaska, plus the executive order to ban re-routed Russian seafood, Jack Darrell focuses on the Ketchikan part of the Trident pullout for KRBD, and C share reform gets final action at the NPFMC.
2023-12-2914 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 21 December 2023This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines its a shameless look back at this year's fish news, Part One!
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The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 14 December 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: It is a double dose of KYUK's Evan Erickson as he reports on the early lives of chum salmon, and a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service. Plus Brian Venua on Trident's Alaska divestiture.
2023-12-1414 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 07 December 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The take of killer whales in Alaska fisheries is up, the Alaska Seafood Development Foundation has a new CEO, and a look at the emerging mariculture industry.
2023-12-0714 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 30 November 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KNBA's Rhonda McBride talks to Mary Peltola about the federal lawsuit against the state, Shelby Herbert tells of an aquaculture class in Petersburg for KFSK, plus the philosophy of C Shares.
Photo: PHS aquaculture students release salmon fry into City Creek, about two miles outside of Petersburg. (Photo by Shelby Herbert/KFSK)
2023-12-0114 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 23 November 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT's Brian Venua on the upcoming Kodiak tanner crab season, Sitkans gird themselves to battle green crabs as reported by KCAW's Meredith Redick, and KDLL's Hunter Morrison reports on pesky northern pike.
Northern Pike in Andreafsky river. Photo: USFWS
2023-11-2314 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 16 November 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Alaska Public Media's Kavitha George talks to Cordova kelp farmers, the Tanana Cheifs Conference weighs salmon hatcheries, as reported by Dan Bross of KUAC, and KMXT's Brian Venua chats with Undercurrent reporter Kirsten Dobroth about a somber meeting of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute.
2023-11-1614 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 09 November 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: CoastAlaska's Angela Denning reports on the power of pink salmon, the Alaska Beacon shines a light on an average red run forecasted for next year in Bristol Bay, and Riley Board tells the tale of east side setnet closures in Upper Cook Inlet, courtesy of KDLL.
Photo: Photo by Kate RuckPink salmon spawn in Gilmour Creek near where it enters Prince William Sound, Alaska, as a field technician works to collect carcasses of dead fish.
2023-11-0914 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 02 November 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Kenai Peninsula Borough asks for a setnetter disaster designation, story from Riley Board of KDLL, young Native Alaskans practice fish preparation, from KFSK's Rachel Cassandra, and ADF&G has released the commercial salmon report for 2023.
2023-11-0214 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 19 October 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Rhonda McBride reports that AFN is joining the fed in suing the state, Janie Diep of KBBI on kids and salmon eggs, and from KDLG Christina McDermott offers a profile of Bristol Bay fisherman Dan Barr.
Photo: Twenty-seven classes from 15 schools in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District attended the two-day event on the Anchor River and Bear Creek. (Courtesy Eric Hart/Chapman Elementary School)
2023-10-1914 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 12 October 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KYUK's Evan Erickson reports on building a better bycatch map, chum salmon may be moving on up to the Arctic, story by Dan Bross of KUAC, and Shelby Herbert tells of a federal grant to make dirty diesels into clean hybrids. Plus, AFN speaks up about subsistence preference.
2023-10-1214 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 5 October 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Alaska Public media's Kavitha George reports on Yukon youth without salmon, and CoastAlaska's Angela Denning on selecting hatchery chinook salmon to preserve wild stocks.
2023-10-0614 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 21 September 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: A Bristol Bay two-way with KDLG's Christina McDermot and economist Gunnar Knapp. Not to be outdone, CoastAlaska's Angela Denning sits down with biologist Bo Meredith to break down SE salmon.
F/V Sounder gillnetting in Lynn Canal, Southeast Alaska. Photo: Joe McCabe
2023-09-2814 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 28 September 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Alaska Department of Fish and Game kicks off its traveling bycatch roadshow, story from Brian Venua of KMXT (plus audio postcard!), and Kavitha George delves into the Yukon salmon collapse for Alaska Public Media.
2023-09-2814 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 14 September 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Anna Canny reports on salmon suffocation for KTOO, Cross-border salmon cooperation as told by Alaska Public Media's Kavitha George, and the National Marine Fisheries Service has closed its comment period for MSA guidelines.
2023-09-1414 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 7 September 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The National Transportation Safety Board issues its report on the sinking of the Challenger, story and setup by Brian Venua, of KMXT, who also contributes a report about a forty year old salmon hatchery in Kodiak.
2023-09-0714 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 31 August 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Brian Venua's report on the salmon market, from KMXT, Desiree Hagen's spot on the Kotzebue salmon closure, and a stroll around a noisy Kodiak boat harbor.
2023-09-0514 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 24 August 2023This week the Alaska Fisheries Report with host Terry Haines features Evan Erickson's story about one man openers on the Kuskokwim, from KYUK, the starry predator that eats urchins is featured in Meredith Redick's story for KCAW, and a deadly ammonia leak, story by KUCB's Maggie Nelson.
2023-08-2514 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 17 August 2023This week the Alaska Fisheries Report with host Terry Haines features Jamie Diep's story on the latest mariculture meet up, courtesy of KBBI, a report on the sudden drop in salmon prices by KFSK's Hannah Flor, and voracious young black cod could be a challenge for salmon hatcheries, according to Thomas Copeland, also of KFSK.
Photo: Sablefish swimming just above the sea floor. Credit: NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center
2023-08-1714 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 10 August 2023On this week's Alaska Fishery Report with Terry Haines: Shelby Herbert tells of a clam garden in Kake for KFSK, and the North Pacific Fishery Management Council is calling for Advisory Panel nominations!
2023-08-1414 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 03 August 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Cristina McDermott's piece on price transparency, plucked from the KDLG vine, pairs nicely with a story about using Bristol Bay abundance to shore up salmon supplies in the Yukon, supplied by Alaska Public Media's Kavitha George.
2023-08-0814 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 27 July 2023This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KCAW's Robert Woolsey reports on the ever expanding Seafood Distribution Network , and KDLG's Jack Darrell on Bristol Bay salmon's sudden existential crisis.
2023-07-2714 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 20 July 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KCAW’s Robert Woolsey reports on an overabundance of sockeye in a Sitka lake, Brian Venua of KMXT on a slow start for Kodiak seiners, and his colleague Kirsten Dobroth on whether everyone can play nice in the “sandbox.”2023-07-2014 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 13 July 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KOTZ’s
Desiree Hagen reports on the Kotzebue Sound chum season, and Evan
Erickson takes us to a meeting of the Kuskokwim River Salmon Management Working Group, courtesy of KYUK. Plus a glimmer of hope for Cook Inlet setnetters in the form of an experimental net.
2023-07-1314 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 6 July 2023On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Regulators are considering rewriting the implementing guidelines for the National Standards of the Magnuson Stevens Act. We find out which ones, and why.
2023-07-0614 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 29 June 2023On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Sabine Poux
reports on the Kasilof dipnet opening for KDLL, Dungeness fishing has
been hot in Unalaska, story by KUCB’s Sofia Stuart-Rasi, and dungeness
season has opened in Southeast to muted enthusiasm, as reported by
Hannah Flor of KFSK.
2023-06-2914 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 22 June 2023On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Its all Robert Woolsey this week, as KCAW's ever-intrepid-one first celebrates troll history, then reports on its newly brighter future.
2023-06-2614 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 8 June 2023On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KDLL’s Jenny Neyman reports on a Cook Inlet clam opener, KRBD’s Raegan Miller says green crabs have arrived, and Evan Erickson of KYUK on Kuskokwim smelt.
2023-06-1214 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 1 June 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KCAW’s Ezra Dan reports on artisanal Southeast scallop diving, Nat Herz, of the Northern Journal on the looming troll closure (without a stay in sight), and Shelby Herbert of KFSK on the Petersburg fish rapper.
Photo: Lil Realist X
2023-06-0114 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 25 May 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Alaska Public Radio’s Liz Ruskin reports on efforts to reshape the Federal Fishery “Management Commandments.” Plus Desiree Hagen of KOTZ tells of the connection between spawning sheefish and slumping permafrost.
Photo: Siikauraq Martha Whiting ice fishing for Sheefish. The Iñupiaq name for sheefish is sii (pronounced like “see” in English) USFWS/Katrina Liebich
2023-05-2514 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 18 May 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KCAW’s Robert Woolsey’s spotlight on three Sitka salmon trollers facing a court ordered closure.
Photo: Sitka troller Eric Jordan (Sitka Conservation Society/Bethany Goodrich)
2023-05-1814 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 04 May 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Area M Question is center stage at an Alaska Senate Committee. The Fish and Game Commissioner weighs in.
Photo: Terry Haines
2023-05-0414 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 27 April 2023his week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: This week dual Area M stories, from KUAC’s Dan Bross and KUCB’s Theo Greenly, and
KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth reports on a field trip by Alaska mariculture folk to South Korea, where kelp is king.
2023-04-2814 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 20 April 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: This week
KDLL’s Sabine Poux reports on an emergency rockfish reduction, Desiree
Hagen tells of testing for toxic algal blooms, courtesy of KOTZ, and
Yukon River salmon forecasts are the subject of a story from Dan Bross,
of KUAC fame.
2023-04-2014 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 16 March, 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KBBI’s
Corinne Smith serves up a Cook Inlet Salmon forecast wrap, and Sage
Smiley’s tour de force on transboundary watersheds, produced in the
studios of KSTK.
2023-03-2114 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 9 March, 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Kenai is already closed for kings, story by Sabine Poux of KDLL, kids go icefishing, as reported by KBBI’s Corinne Smith, and a halibut preview from KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth.2023-03-0914 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 2 March, 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Brian Venua of KMXT reports that ASMI is helping the state distribute salmon in Ukraine, The Board of Fish votes to continue to manage 2 Chignik sockeye runs separately, story by KBBI’s Corrinne Smith, Sabine Poux reports on a possible buyback plan for Cook Inlet setnetters for KDLL, and Izzy Ross of KDLG on Area M restrictions.2023-03-0214 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 16 February 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Alaska fishery injuries are most often associated with a winch, story from the Alaska Beacon's Yereth Rosen, Shelby Herbert reports on watershed repair for KFSK, and the Russian River watershed is protected for twenty more years, as reported by KDLL's Riley Board.2023-02-1814 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 02 February 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Kodiak’s tanner crab fleet goes fishing, story by KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth, KCAW’s Robert Woolsey reports on the lawsuit that would halt king salmon trolling, and Izzy Ross of KDLG tells of the governor’s vow to fight the Pebble veto.
Photo: Pebble Mine site.2023-02-0214 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 26 January 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Oceana's Jon Warrenchuk makes a case for a freezing the footprint of bottom trawling in the Gulf of Alaska, plus KMXT's Kirsten Dobroth with a tanner crab stand down update.2023-01-2614 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 19 January 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth on the Tanner crab stand down, Senator Murkowski says fishery disaster money flows too slowly, the trials of a cucumber fisherman, and what will the Mariculture Cluster do with the money?
Photo: Giant red sea cucumber2023-01-1914 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 29 December 2022This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: A look back at some of the top Alaska fish stories of 2022.2023-01-1314 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 12 January 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Maggie Nelson of KUCB reports on the Unalaska cod strike, and KCAW's Katherine Rose on the lawsuit that threatens to shut down Southeast chinook trolling.2023-01-1214 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 05 January 2023This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The North Pacific Fishery Management Council puzzles over how to comply with a court’s order to actively manage the offshore Cook Inlet driftnet fishery.2023-01-0514 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 22 December 2022This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Co-Ho-Ho!
Tear the wrapping away and find Robert Woolsey’s present: a report about a forum on the Future of Fishing, plus Kirsten “Santa” Dobroth from KMXT has two for your stocking: a story on declarations of fish disasters, and one about a plea for precious flotsam.2022-12-2214 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 15 December 2022This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: A tanner season in Unalaska, story by Theo Greenly of KUCB, Robert Woolsey’s Sitka herring outlook, courtesy of KCAW, plus the state needs crab disaster docs, and the fed declines to take emergency action on Bristol Bay red king crab.2022-12-1914 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report 01 December 2022This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: There were no fatalities within Alaska’s commercial fishing fleets this year, story by KRBD’s Raegan Miller, it’s river eel season on the Kuskokwim River, as KYUK’s Francisco Martinezcuello reports, and KCAW’s Robert Woolsey says Northline Seafoods is planning a big comeback.2022-12-0114 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report November 03, 2022This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Part Two of our visit to a meeting of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, the Bycatch Reduction vs. Optimum Yield Edition.2022-11-0314 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report October 27, 2022This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines, its a visit to a meeting of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, Crab Crash Edition.2022-10-2714 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report October 20, 2022This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Raegan Miller of KRBD on invasive green crabs, KTOO’s Yvonne Krumrey reports on the Filipino heritage of Alaska’s canneries, and KBBI’s Hope McKenney reports on ADF&G’s program that teaches kids about salmon. Photo Credit: Emily Grason, Washington Sea Grant.2022-10-2014 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report October 13, 2022This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth reports on the snow crab closure, KDLL’s Riley Board on the fish that makes fat bears fat, and a story from her colleague Sabine Poux on Cook Inlet closures ordered back open.2022-10-1414 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTOn This Week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Big Fines Over a Tiny Railroad, Fisherman Nominated to Board of Fish, Chignik Struggles with Poor RunsOn This Week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Big Fines Over a Tiny Railroad, Fisherman Nominated to Board of Fish, Chignik Struggles with Poor Runs2021-09-1014 min
The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXTAlaska Fisheries Report June 17, 2021On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Council Takes No Action on Excess Trawl Caught Small Sablefish2021-06-1814 min