The Alaska Fisheries Report from KMXT

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT's Katherine Irving reports on Aquaculture Opportunity Areas, eastside setnetters in Cook Inlet bear the brunt of king salmon conservation efforts, story by KDLL's Ashlyn O'Hara, and Fish and Game has announced its salmon harvest estimates for this year, according to CoastAlaska's Angela Denning.Photo: Brian Gabriel (left) and Lisa Gabriel (right) deploy a beach seine on Wednesday, July 9, 2025 in Clam Gulch. (Ashlyn O'Hara)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT's Davis Hovey reports on a bill that seeks to change conflict-of-interest rules for the Board of Fisheries, Pike get hungrier when they get warmer, according to KNBA's Rhonda McBride and the Alaska Beacon, and a conversation between the Northern Journal's Nat Herz and APM's Casey Grove about the alternate fisheries reality that is Metlakatla.Photo: Fishing boats line the harbor in Metlakatla. (Jack Darrell/KRBD)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Davis Hovey reports on the creation of the USDA's new Office of Seafood, Hope McKenney of KCAW on the Sitka Assembly voting against a sweetheart lease deal for a local hatchery, and a story of sea ice prognostication from Ben Townsend and KNOM.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KUAC's Patrick Gilchrist reports the state is short on funds for a Fairbanks hatchery, the Alaska Beacon on a lawsuit on behalf of St. Paul fur seals challenging Bering Sea pollock management and on a state bill that would allow setnet cooperatives, Maggie Nelson of KUCB on a lawsuit challenging recent changes to Area M management, plus Ryan Cotter's story of a new hybrid fishing boat, courtesy of KCAW. Photo: Ben Matthys (right) showcases different parts of the F/V Mirage’s engine room and new hybrid engine to Sen. Lisa Murkowski. (KCAW/Cotter)

his week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:KDLL's Ashlyn O'Hara reports that driftnet fishermen in Upper Cook Inlet will be using a new rulebook this season, sport fishermen in Southeast Alaska will have more kings to catch, according to Olivia Rose of KFSK, and Katherine Irving tells of salmon dissection from the studios of KMXT.Photo: A king salmon weighs in at Auke Nu Cove in Juneau on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Davis Hovey reports on Alaska's newest kelp hatchery, KCAW's Katherine Rose on the herring opener in Sitka Sound, and KCAW's Ryan Cotter on a convergence of fishermen and librarians.Photo: A kelp farmer harvests the marine algae off the coast of Cordova, Alaska. (Lila Hobbs/The Pew Charitable Trusts)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Alaska Board of Fisheries takes no action on a set of trawl proposals, plus KFSK's Olivia Rose reports on the Dungeness numbers for Southeast Alaska. Photo: Crew members shovel pollock onboard a trawler in the Bering Sea in 2019. (Nat Herz/Alaska Public Media)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KCAW's Hope McKinney reports on a trio of allegedly intentional boat sinkings, the Aleutians East Borough has filed a complaint against a Board of Fisheries member, story from Theo Greenly of KUCB, a crabber has died after falling overboard, as reported by KUCB's Maggie Nelson, and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is restricting sport fishing for king salmon and rockfish.Photo: Yelloweye rockfish (ADF&G)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KYUK's Evan Erickson reports on restricted salmon fishing in Area M to avoid Yukon-bound chums, Hunter Morrison on extending the Southeast shrimp closure to sport and subsistence, courtesy of KRBD, and KMXT's own Davis Hovey on a new producer of seed kelp in Kodiak.Photo: Fritz Charles’ family picks a chinook salmon from the net. (Photo courtesy of Sharon F. Charles)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Alix Soliman reports on the perils and promise of mariculture in SE, Colette Czarnecki on a Wrangell fisherman roundtable, and severe restrictions on Cook Inlet sport king fishing, according to KDLL's Ashlyn O'Hara. Photo: Thousands of young Pacific oysters grow in bins within the floating upweller system, or FLUPSY. (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The North Pacific Fishery Management Council has voted to adopt chum salmon bycatch measures on Bering Sea pollock, as reported by the Alaska Desk's Alena Naiden, and KUCB's Theo Greenly looks at the CDQ groups in the middle. Plus KMXT's Davis Hovey has some good news for Kodiak's cod fishermen.Photo: Chum salmon. (National Marine Fishery Service)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:The North Pacific Management Council finally takes final action on measures to curtail chum salmon bycatch in the Bering Sea pollock fishery.Photo: Trawl net and codend in Unalaska's Carl E. Moses Boat Harbor, April 2025. (Theo Greenly)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Theo Greenly reports on possible chum salmon bycatch measures for Bering Sea pollock, Davis Hovey on a subdued assessment for Gulf of Alaska cod, and no revised bag limits for sport halibut, for now.Photo: Pollock (NOAA Fishwatch)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KRBD's Hunter Morrison reports on the Southeast Alaska chinook forecast, Avery Ellfeldt from KHNS on the implications of warming wetlands on salmon, and a report on the Alaska Young Fishermen's Summit from Alix Soliman, compliments of KTOO. Photo: Rowan Miller attended this year''s Young Fishermen's Summit this year in Juneau. (Photo courtesy of Rowan Miller)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:KUCB's Maggie Nelson reports that a major pollock processor will employ fewer foreign workers, KCAW's Katherine Rose says the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery is a go (if anyone goes) and the Alaska Groundfish Data Bank is closing up shop, according to KMXT's Davis Hovey.Photo: Seiners in the fourth opening of the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery, in 2014. (KCAW file photo)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Jill Fratis reports on the rescue of nine fishermen from their grounded vessel for KNBA, KMXT's Davis Hovey on cod quota based on obsolete numbers, and Sitka's Fish to Schools program is in the spotlight, courtesy of KCAW's Ryan Cotter.Photo: Sitka Conservation Society and Shee Atiká staff pose with donated sockeye salmon from Shee Atiká. (Sitka Conservation Society)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Its Lookback Episode #2, with reporting from KUCB's Maggie Nelson on the FISH Act, from KMXT's Davis Hovey on a new herring fishery, plus a grim assessment of the state of halibut.Photo: Alaska herring. (Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Merry Christmas!In this retro show we listen back at Theo Greenly's report for KUAC and the Alaska Desk on chum salmon bycatch in Bering Sea pollock, Desiree Hagen's report on sheefish for KOTZ, and Ben Townsend's visit to Salmon Lake for KNOM.Photo: Siikauraq Martha Whiting ice fishing for Sheefish. (Katrina Liebich/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Alaska Desk reporter Alena Naiden drops a story about Backyard Buoys, and KCAW's Hope McKenney reports on Alaska's first hybid powered commercial fishing boat.Photo: Quinhagak resident Patrick Jones deploys a buoy in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region in early summer, 2025.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:This week KUCB's Maggie Nelson reports on Red crab nearly wasted, Davis Hovey tells of a comment period for fishery management suggestions, and a sablefish report card!

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Alaska Public Media's Casey Grove talks to fisheries reporter Hal Bernton about warm oceans and flawed models in the halibut fishery, and Maggie Nelson reports that harvestable pollock was left in the ocean in the Bering Sea "B" season, courtesy of KUCB.Photo: Pacific halibut. (Alaska Department of Fish and Game)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:KUCB's Theo Greenly reports that crabbers are finally starting to get relief money, Southeast Alaska's first red king crab fishery in eight years is underway, according to KFSK's Olivia Rose, and Cook Inlet had a good sockeye season, story by KDLL's Ashlyn O'Hara.Photo: Close up of a red king crab in a tote near Petersburg, September 2025. (Angela Denning/Coast Alaska)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:KMXT's Davis Hovey reports that the Alaska State Troopers seized all electronics from the Alaska Groundfish Data Bank in Kodiak, and then he throws cold water on an old wives tale.Photo: Micrograph of phytoplankton. (Image by NOAA MESA Project, via the NOAA Photo Library.)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Hunter Morrison gives an update on invasive European green crabs from the studio of KRBD, fishing job numbers are down again, according to KUCB's Theo Greenly, and a wayward fishing vessel was captured in Petersburg, story from Olivia Rose of KFSK.Photo: European Green Crab (Photo by Ginny Eckert/Alaska Sea Grant)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Davis Hovey and Brian Venua discuss the recent meeting of the United Fishermen of Alaska in Kodiak, Olivia Rose of KFSK reports on the first red king crab fishery in eight years in Southeast Alaska, and the sport fish survey is about to hit mailboxes.Photo: Red king crab in a tote near Petersburg, September 2025. (Angela Denning/Coast Alaska)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Hunter Morrison reports on a kelp seed hatchery, Alena Naiden of KNBA about a push for co-management of subsistence resources at the Alaska Federation of Native Convention, and Fish and Game will not open tanner crab fishing in Kodiak, Chignik, and the Peninsula for 2026.Photo: Young kelp plants grow inside water tanks at Premium Aquatics’ hatchery in Ketchikan. (Hunter Morrison/KRBD)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Davis Hovey reports that an advisory on shellfish around Kodiak has been lifted, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council got some work done at its latest meeting despite the federal shutdown, but according to the Alaska Beacon the shutdown is creating uncertainty for some major Alaska fisheries.Photo: The North Pacific Fishery Management Council. (NPFMC)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:The Petersburg Borough Assembly is calling for help controlling sea otters, story by KFSK's Taylor Heckert, Hunter Morrison of KRBD reports a Ketchikan man has pleaded guilty to charges of theft and illegal fishing, and Alaska Beacon's Yereth Rosen reports that things look rosier for Bering Sea crab stocks, for now.Photo: Bristol Bay red king crab.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Alix Soliman of KTOO reports on the challenges and opportunities in Alaska oyster farming, KCAW's Hope McKenney on the economics of the Southeast Alaska fishing industry, and Brian Venua on the entanglement of the whales, from KMXT.Photo: Salty Lady Seafood Co. staff pull up oysters in Bridget Cove. (Photo courtesy of Meta Mesdag)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Brian Venua reports on a grant awarded to a Kodiak plant for kelp processing, mariculture was front and center at the recent meeting of the Southeast Conference, according to Ryan Cotter of KCAW, and Wali Rana of KNOM tells of aerial surveys of the Bering and Chukchi Seas.Photo: A kelp farmer harvests the marine algae off the coast of Cordova, Alaska. (Lila Hobbs, The Pew Charitable Trusts)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:KOTZ's Desiree Hagen reports on bad data for the northernmost salmon fishery, Southeast salmon was less than stellar, according to CoastAlaska's Angela Denning, and the state wants the Supreme Court to take on rural preference for subsistence, according to KYUK's Sage Smiley.Photo: Chum salmon (NFWS)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: It's all salmon, with Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist Carl Burnside talking about the big year for sockeye in Chignik, and KMXT's Brian Venua on the rush of pink salmon in Kodiak.Photo : Chignik weir. (Photo courtesy of Carl Burnside, Alaska Dept of Fish and Game)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Ashlyn O'Hara reports on a sport fishing roundtable all around king salmon from KDLL, and KNBA's Rhonda McBride about a subsistence win on the Kuskokwim.Photo: A panel at the Kenai River Sportfishing Association’s Kenai Classic Roundtable in Soldotna, Aug. 21, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Seaweed could be is the secret ingredient in cement, according to Bellamy Pailthorp of KNKX, Wali Rana reports on the new processor in Savoonga courtesy of KNOM, and Resurrection Creek is nearly restored, story by KDLL's Hunter Morrison.Photo: Resurrection Creek in the Chugach National Forest

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KUCB's Theo Greenly reports on Bryce Edgmon's dire warning for fishing communities, Avery Ellfeldt tells of an outcry to control Southeast sea otters, from the studio of KHNS, and sport fishing for sockeye was stellar on the Kenai River, according to KDLL"s Hunter Morrison.Photo: A sea otter floats on its back. (Photo by Theresa Soley/KTOO)

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KDLG's Kendra Hannah provides a two-way with economist Gunnar Knapp on processors pulling out of Bristol Bay, Hannah Weaver of KFSK reports on a Petersburg hydroelectric plant that's trying to share water with a hatchery, and Alaska Public Media's Eric Stone on Metlakatla's fight for extended fishing rights.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:KHNS's Avery Ellfeldt has a story on a new insurance option for Alaska fishermen, king salmon sport fishing for out-of-state residents is back on, according to Olivia Rose of KFSK, Evan Erickson reports on a new policy brief about crashing Yukon salmon stocks for KYUK, and a Kodiak fisherman has been fined over a million dollars for persistently pumping bilge water overboard, story by KMXT's Davis Hovey.Photo: Fish wheel, a primary means of catching Chinook salmon in the middle section of the Yukon River.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Alaska Public Media's Eliza Dunn reports on dipnetting at Ship Creek, KMXT's Davis Hovey on a kelp hatchery, and KDLG's Kendra Hanna on potential safety data gaps for commercial fishermen.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Hannah Weaver of KFSK reports on the search for unwanted crustaceans on the shores of Mitkof Island, Ben Townsend goes off to Salmon Lake, at the behest of KNOM, and Hannah Weaver does double duty with a story on disappointing subsistence salmon fishing on the Stikine River.Photo: A European green crab. Credit: Emily Grason, Washington Sea Grant.

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!