Angela Denning, CoastAlaska, Author at KFSK

Petersburg assembly to consider ways to increase revenues

Borough finances are the main topic for tonight’s Petersburg Borough Assembly meeting.

Ferry board recommends retiring the M/V Matanuska

“Funding is tight, and will those dollars stay there in the rural ferry program? You know, with the new administration?” said Marine Director Craig Tornga. “We just don’t want to be competing against our new build plan that’s in the long-range plan.”

Silver Bay Seafoods announces buyout of OBI

Silver Bay says it plans to manage all OBI facilities and operations, including processing plants in Petersburg, Seward, Kodiak, Larsen Bay, Egegik, Wood River, Cordova, and Naknek, as well as a warehouse and labeling facility in Kent, Washington.

Alaska’s pink returns cause a low salmon harvest year overall

“Knowing that our freshwater habitat in Alaska is largely intact and is very productive, then you know, you’re sort of left with the question of what happens to those fish when they’re in the ocean and we believe that those ocean condition and survival of salmon in the ocean is largely what drives the strength of these returns,” said Forrest Bowers, the state’s Deputy Director of the Division of Commercial Fisheries.

Alaska Native blood quantum clarified for who can hunt sea otters

For years, the regulations about who could hunt sea otters in Alaska were confusing. Many thought hunters must be at least one-quarter Alaska Native and belong to a coastal tribe. But a recent opinion from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service confirms that any coastal tribal member can hunt sea otters, no matter their blood quantum.