The general manager of Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association will be speaking about the hatchery programs throughout Southeast Alaska this Saturday at the Petersburg Chamber of Commerce Banquet at the Sons of Norway Hall.

As general manager, Steve Reifenstuhl leads NSRAA in its mission to restore and rehabilitate Alaska's salmon stocks. The non-profit organization also has a program that enhances commercial fisheries.

"It's very vital to Southeast to have those programs for fishermen, because that revenue comes back into the communities," said Angela Christensen, a Petersburg...