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 By Olivia Rose    News    February 15, 2024

IPHC releases halibut numbers and regulations for 2024

The International Pacific Halibut Commission released the halibut numbers for 2024 on Feb. 5 following their annual meeting. The IPHC oversees...

 

Capitol Updates

­Dear Friends and Neighbors: Greetings from Juneau! The 2nd session of the 33rd Legislature started...

 
 By Orin Pierson    News    December 14, 2023

Trident Seafoods announces plan to sell processing plants in Petersburg, Ketchikan, False Pass, and Kodiak

Trident Seafoods issued a press release on Tuesday, Dec. 12 announcing a “comprehensive restructuring initiative” that will put the seafood giant...

 

Next summer's draft ferry schedule same as this year

With the rusty Matanuska out of service pending repairs, the Kennicott scheduled for tie-up due to lack of crew and the Tazlina in the shipyard to...

 
 By Anna Laffrey    News    December 7, 2023

State forecasts average pink salmon harvest in 2024

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced it expects Southeast Alaska commercial fishermen next year will harvest around 19 million pink...

 

Guest Editorial: Alaska's gas line dream is out of alignment

Alaska officials who say the stars are aligned for the long-dreamt, long-on-the-odds multibillion-dollar North Slope natural gas project are...

 
 By Larry Persily    News    October 5, 2023

State plans to send Matanuska into shipyard for full-hull scan

The state wants to send the Matanuska, the oldest vessel in the Alaska Marine Highway System fleet,...

 

Guest Editorial: About time the pipeline dream ran out of gas

Elected officials who say the proposed Alaska North Slope natural gas project is closer than ever to putting steel pipe in the ground and money in...

 
 By Mark Sabbatini    News    June 22, 2023

Columbia cancels sailings for at least a week due to repairs

The Columbia state ferry has cancelled its sailings for at least a week due to a mechanical issue, a...

 
 By Lizzie Thompson    News    March 30, 2023

Hyer family to set sail from San Diego to New Zealand

On September first Dr. Jennifer (Jen) Hyer will begin an eighteen month sabbatical from the...

 
 By Larry Persily    News    March 2, 2023

Ferry system lacks crew to operate the Kennicott this summer

In a change of plans from just a few weeks ago, the Alaska Marine Highway System reports it lacks enough crew to operate the Kennicott this summer. Th...

 

Crew shortage continues to plague state ferry system

An ongoing shortage of crew is the “No. 1 risk factor” for the Alaska Marine Highway System, Transportation Department Deputy Commissioner...

 

Inside Kodiak's crab standoff

After the heat wave-induced collapse of the Bering Sea snow crab fishery, some fishermen were looking, with hope, at the upcoming tanner crab harvest... Full story

 
 By Larry Persily    News    February 2, 2023

State ferry system will get $284 million from federal treasury

The federal ship has come in for the Alaska Marine Highway System, carrying more than $284 million for upgrades to old vessels, money to help pay for...

 

Alaska Marine Highway System awarded $285 Million in infrastructure funding

Washington, DC — U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both R-Alaska, announced Wednesday that the Federal Transit Administration is...

 
 By Larry Persily    News    January 19, 2023

Matanuska out of service; Columbia coming back; no ferry until Feb. 17

The state ferry Matanuska will not return to service from its winter overhaul as scheduled next month and will require millions of dollars more of...

 

New federal law will allow halibut charter fleet to buy commercial quota shares

The halibut charter boat fleet in Southeast and the Gulf of Alaska will be able to collectively buy quota shares from commercial fishermen under a pro...

 

La Niña brings on colder winter in Southeast

Petersburg is expected to be in for a cooler than normal winter as La Niña conditions return for...

 

SE pink salmon 2023 forecast comes in at significantly lower harvest

State and federal fishery managers are forecasting a commercial harvest of about 19 million pink salmon in 2023 in Southeast Alaska, which would be a...

 

Yesterday's News News from 25-50-75-100 years ago

November 24, 1922 – Forced to turn out to sea for six days, with the engines running every minute without a stop, and one member of the crew kept a...

 

Yesterday's News News from 25-50-75-100 years ago

September 29, 1922 – “Theoretically and scientifically and in accordance with official lore, the run of sockeyes up the Chilkat closed on the...

 

Ferry system will suspend "dynamic pricing" plan

Three years after adopting a pricing plan that adds a surcharge for passenger, vehicle and...

 
 By Chris Basinger    News    July 14, 2022

Dry conditions pose challenge for borough

Petersburg has been hit with below average rainfall this summer according to data collected by the...

 
 By Yereth Rosen    Dockside    June 16, 2022

Fishery managers call for deeper look at salmon bycatch, but decline to tighten rules

Western Alaska villagers have endured the worst chum salmon runs on record, several years of anemic Chinook salmon runs in the Yukon and Kuskokwim... Full story

 

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