Author: Joe Viechnicki, KFSK

A Petersburg seafood business and some stream restoration work on Kuiu Island were among the nearly nine million dollars in project funding announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in March. That money will help move salmon and other seafood to buyers and pay for salmon habitat repair.

Petersburg’s borough assembly this week came out in support of the Ocean Rangers program for monitoring cruise ship waste water discharges and against legislation to repeal that type of independent monitoring for larger ships.

Petersburg’s borough assembly Monday voted unanimously to form a task force to look into child care and early education needs in the community.

Southeast Alaska’s other commercial fishery for herring eggs closed out the month of March still waiting for the fish to lay their eggs.