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Commercial and charter fishing fleets in Southeast Alaska and the central Gulf could see some small increases in their catch of halibut for next year.

An official with the Alaska Department of Transportation says the agency still plans to spray herbicide for weed control along a section of state-owned road on Prince of Wales Island next year.

In late fall and into the winter, thousands of humpback whales that have been fattening up on krill and herring in the waters of Southeast Alaska head south for warmer waters. Researchers from Oregon State University’s Marine Mammal Institute are trying to find out more about the timing and nature of the whales’ annual three-thousand-mile migration from Alaska to Hawaii.