Fishery managers are forecasting another big harvest of pink salmon in Southeast Alaska next year. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is estimating the region’s catch in 2015 could hit 58 million pinks and is forecast to fall somewhere between 37 and 79 million humpies.
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The country used to have traveling shows that came to rural communities called Chautauquas. A new kind of Chautauqua will be coming to Petersburg and other Southeast towns next year.
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Rescue volunteers responded to people on board a small crab boat that went onto the rocky beach north of town.
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Proposed copper mines in British Columbia have a coalition speaking out on what they say could potentially hurt salmon runs for people on both sides of the border.
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Senior Abel Aulbach broke the state record in the 100 yard freestyle event which had been held since 1998 by Petersburg swim star, Derek Gibb.
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