The overall commercial catch of pink salmon in Southeast Alaska is falling short of the pre-season forecast but it’s not as low as last year’s run. In fact, some parts of the panhandle have seen strong humpy catches.
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It was a short agenda and a quick meeting for the borough assembly Monday. Mayor Cindi Lagoudakis and assembly members Eric Castro, Jeigh Stanton Gregor and Bob Lynn attended the meeting lasting around 17 minutes. Lagoudakis reported on a summer legislative conference she attended this month in Haines.
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Petersburg school board member Brandi Marohl has filed to run for a seat on the borough assembly. Marohl made the announcement at Tuesday’s school board meeting.
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The National Marine Fisheries has published a final rule allowing use of electronic monitoring instead of an on-board human observer for smaller longline and pot gear fishing vessels. The final rule published Tuesday, August 8 allows vessels under 60 feet fishing for halibut and groundfish to volunteer for video camera monitoring for next year’s season.
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Summertime is the time for all kinds of camps and activities for kids while school is out. Around 40 girls turned out last week for a Girl Scout camp under sunny skies in Petersburg.
It was a traveling day camp offered in seven communities in Southeast Alaska over ten weeks. Most camps have been a week long. In Juneau the sessions lasted three weeks. Camps are for girls ages 5-18. In Petersburg it was mostly younger girls attending and they enjoyed games, artwork and crafts. Joe Viechnicki caught up with camp counselors Alli York and Makenzie Kutyba along with some of the campers at the end of the week.
