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The Petersburg Indian Association has started monitoring water conditions at popular shellfish harvesting spots around town. They’re watching for a potentially dangerous algae bloom that could make clams unsafe to eat. The new program has also started up elsewhere in Southeast. Joe Viechnicki reports.

The small Southeast village of Kake could see a hatchery run of king salmon in the future.
The Sitka-based Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association applied for a permit change for a new remote release of up to 200,000 Chinook at Gunnuk Creek in Kake.

Petersburg’s school superintendent is on administrative leave until early next year. Superintendent Lisa Stroh was not at Tuesday night’s board meeting and board president Jean Ellis made that announcement part way through the meeting.