Commercial Dungeness crabbers have a full two-month summer and two-month fall season for most of Southeast Alaska again this year. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced this week the summer season would continue through August 15 and a fall season is planned for October and November. The season length is set based on the catch from the first week of fishing. Crabbing opened on June 15th.
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Southeast Alaska commercial trollers have their first summer opening for king salmon July 1st. Managers are hoping the fleet will catch around 122-thousand wild stock kings, managed under the Pacific Salmon Treaty between the U.S. and Canada, along with several thousand more Alaska hatchery kings.
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A road on Kupreanof Island between Kake and Petersburg is now on hold because of Alaska’s budget crisis. Among his announcements of budget vetoes Wednesday morning, Governor Bill Walker said the state would be pausing eight highway road projects around Alaska. The projects are state-funded and they include a proposed road link across the northern side of Kupreanof Island.
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Gov. Bill Walker cut Permanent Fund dividends today to $1,000 per person, about half of the projected amount.
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A Petersburg man arrested earlier this year on a drug charge has been indicted by a grand jury on two federal counts for child pornography.
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