Monday, November 12, 2012
THINK PINK
The state is forecasting an excellent harvest of 54 million pink salmon next year in Southeast Alaska.
– Pacific Fishing columnist Wesley Loy, writing in his blog: Deckboss
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Red king crab harvest
Season approaches record-breaking numbers.
– Alaska Dispatch
More:alaskadispatch.com
Changing Bristol Bay's dual permit system
Nushagak advisory committee rejects proposals 36, 37 and 38.
– KDLG
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Coast Guard looks, doesn't find oil spill
Oiled birds lead to search for oil spill along the Bering Sea island coast and surrounding waters.
– Anchorage Daily News
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More Bristol Bay sockeye?
State biologists are recommending somewhat higher sockeye salmon escapement goals for most river systems around Bristol Bay.
Pacific Fishing columnist Wesley Loy, writing in his blog: Deckboss
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Design student creates light-up exits for fish nets
Smaller fish get help out.
– Dvice.com
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Hurricane Sandy leaves Jamaican waters filled with fish
Fishermen challenged by lack of cold storage, other factors.
– Jamaica Gleaner
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
GOOD NEWS ON BRISTOL BAY
State biologists are recommending somewhat higher sockeye salmon escapement goals for most river systems around Bristol Bay.
– Pacific Fishing columnist Wesley Loy, reporting on his blog: Deckboss
More:deckboss.blogspot.com
Salmon future: Bleak
Wild Pacific Northwest salmon face a bleak future, boasting but a tiny fraction of their historical population size, according to collaboration between salmon biologists and conservation advocates.
– KTOO, Juneau
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Coast D-crab price may climb
They're as big and as healthy as ever. But there may be fewer of them, and no one knows what they'll cost.
– San Francisco Chronicle
More:sfgate.com
SE pink forecast strong
Fish and Game is estimating a commercial catch of 54 million pinks next year, falling in the "excellent" category for fishery managers.
– KFSK, Petersburg
More:kfsk.org
Columbia: Natural gas
The National Park Service has expressed concerns about a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal at the mouth of the Columbia River.
– Salem Statesman Journal
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Columbia: Coal
They want to know how the entire region would be affected if all the coal export terminals are built.
– Oregon Public Broadcasting
More:opb.org
Aleutian volcano shoots ash
The alert level for a remote volcano in Alaska's Aleutian Islands has been raised after a small ash cloud was detected.
– KTOO, Juneau
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A look at Alaska elections
Here are a couple of observations from last week's general election.
– Pacific Fishing columnist Wesley Loy, reporting on his blog: Deckboss
More:deckboss.blogspot.com
Fishermen unite for dredging
Currently, enough sand has built up in the port that boats can move in and out of the bay only at high tide.
– Coos Bay World
More:theworldlink.com
King crab price still high
Even though the price is down substantially from last year's record of $10 per pound, this year's red king harvest may fetch the second-highest price ever with the help of larger crab.
– Pacific Fishing magazine contributor Jim Paulin, writing in the Dutch Harbor Fisherman
More:thedutchharborfisherman.com
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
ALASKA KING
LOOSES CLIMB
Alaska's Commerce commissioner says the disaster from poor king salmon returns was worse than first estimated.
– KTOO, Juneau
More:www.ktoo.org
UFOs are squid boats
If you didn't already know it, those unidentified floating objects that have dotted the horizon with bright floodlights on some recent nights are commercial fishing vessels that use the lights to lure squid to the surface.
– Orange County Register
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Villages battle over CDQ allocation
What's been called a civil war over a federal fishing program meant to help struggling Alaska Native villages has reached a new level of bitterness, with one of the wealthiest entities blasting the head of another.
– Alaska Dispatch
More:alaskadispatch.com
Sac roe herring in fresh water
The bounty of fish mark the height of the lake herring season on Lake Superior, where for about six weeks every October and November, thousands of the silvery fish, also called cisco, are pulled from the icy waters.
– Duluth (Minn.) News Tribune
More:duluthnewstribune.com
Alaska frets over B.C. mines
Pollution from the Tulsequah Chief mine has flowed for 50 years and continues today, as successive owners of the property try and fail to restart the mine.
– The Tyee, British Columbia
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Subsistence trial postponed
Trials have been postponed for Alaska Native fishermen charged with illegal fishing during a poor summer salmon run.
– Juneau Empire
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Pondering salmon-eating birds
The federal Army Corps of Engineers is holding public meetings this week in Portland and Astoria to discuss what to do about double-crested cormorants eating protected salmon in the Columbia River estuary.
– Daily Astorian
More:www.dailyastorian.com
Amendments to Klamath deal
Passionate public comment was the order of the day at Tuesday's meeting of the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors, where people voiced their opinions about amendments to the Klamath River restoration agreement.
– Eureka Times Standard
More:times-standard.com
N. Cal red tide
Shellfish gathered from Del Norte County coasts this fall have been found to contain the highest level ever detected here of a dangerous toxin produced by red algal blooms, often called red tide.
– Crescent City Triplicate
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Large shark on road
The mystery of how the thresher shark showed up on the Wishkah Road may be a little closer to being solved.
– KXRO, Aberdeen
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
NW DUNGENESS DELAYED
Tests at points in Northern California, Oregon, and Washington show the crab meat-to-shell ratio is too low to begin harvesting at the usual starting date of Dec. 1.
– The Oregonian
More:www.oregonlive.com
Central Cal d-crab season begins
The scene was chaotic Wednesday morning at Pillar Point Harbor north of Half Moon Bay as fishermen piled their boats with crab traps and raced to drop them in the ocean ahead of Thursday's season opener.
– Oakland Tribune
More:www.insidebayarea.com
Central Cal crab few
Pillar Point Harbor is already rife with scuttlebutt of sport fishermen pulling up half-empty pots and choice crabbing spots already depleted of stock. – Half Moon Bay Review
More:www.hmbreview.com
Closing Togiak sac roe fishery until 2016 opposed
Panel votes for Togiak opening
Members of the Nushagak Fish and Game Advisory Committee at first favored, but ultimately voted 11-3 in opposition to closing the multi-million dollar Togiak sac roe fishery until 2016.
– Cordova Times
More:www.thecordovatimes.com
Otters to be allowed to expand
“It would allow sea otters to reclaim their historic range.”
– Santa Barbara Independent
More:www.independent.com
Bigger Akutan harbor
Over the last two years, Knik Construction has converted what was once a flat stretch of tundra at the end of Akutan Bay into a full-size boat harbor.
– KUCB, Unalaska
More:www.alaskapublic.org
Ketchikan shipyard hiring
Ketchikan’s shipyard has added about 20 jobs since February, with employees earning an average annual salary of $55,000.
– KRBD, Ketchikan
More:www.krbd.org
Pollution worries in sinking
Five crewmembers from the Polar Wind were rescued after the tug and the barge it was towing went aground.
– KUCB, Unalaska
More:kucb.org
Alaska boosts outsider free
The state is bumping up the surcharge nonresidents must pay for commercial fishing permits.
– Pacific Fishing columnist Wesley Loy, reporting on his blog: Deckboss
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Crab groups merge
Two major advocates for the commercial crab industry plan to complete a merger Dec. 31, with the Alaska Crab Coalition closing its doors to merge with the Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers.
– Cordova Times
More:www.thecordovatimes.com
Friday, November 16, 2012
SE DIVERS GET GOOD WEATHER
Decent weather this fall has helped divers harvesting sea cucumbers and geoduck clams from the sea floor in Southeast Alaska.
– KFSK, Petersburg
More:kfsk.org
Sentence for Freddie Joe Hankins
Bad-boy commercial fisherman Freddie Joe Hankins won't have to wear an ankle bracelet, but he will be electronically monitored when fishing off Alaska for the next several years.
– Alaska Dispatch
More:alaskadispatch.com
Habitat, habitat, habitat
In a two-day symposium in Anchorage in late October, scientists pondered as potential research priorities studies ranging from stock assessments to climate change, with a goal of strengthening low Chinook salmon runs around the state.
– Margaret Bauman, writing in the Cordova Times
More:thecordovatimes.com
No nuke seismic study
Many people on the central coast have been toasting to victory of the Coastal Commissions denial to PG&E's advanced seismic testing.
– KCOY, San Luis Obispo
More:www.kcoy.com
Fine for ammonia spill
It's been four months since an ammonia spill on a processing vessel shut down parts of Unalaska.
– KUCB, Unalaska
More:alaskapublic.org
Alaska Fisheries Report
Setnetting on Cook Inlet this year – worse than you thought, as is the king salmon disaster. And, the future could be just as bleak. All that, but a ray of sunshine from Southeast.
– KMXT, Kodiak
More:www.kmxt.org
Timing may stop fish farm lice
A University of Alberta-led research team had discovered that by changing the timing of sea lice treatments, both captive and wild salmon can be spared from devastating sea lice infestations.
– Victoria Times Colonist
More:timescolonist.com
Crescent City harbor stalled
Dock installation in Crescent City Harbor once again had an unexpected hiccup when the custom-built drill bit designed to install pilings experienced a "massive failure" last week.
– Crescent City Triplicate
More:triplicate.com
DYI dredging
Federal officials have told a small Oregon port that it won't be dredged anytime soon, so fishermen are planning to make their own channel through sand that's now deep enough to keep them from coming in or going out except at high tide.
– Coos Bay World
More:theworldlink.com
Cal crab brings $3 a pound
Fishermen and buyers agreed to an opening wholesale price of $3 per pound of crab, up from $2.25 last year.
– Mercury News, San Jose
More:mercurynews.com
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