This Southeast commercial salmon harvest is already one for the record books this year and it’s not quite done yet. While the seine fleet’s Pink Salmon catches in Southern Southeast have remained below expectations, the huge volume from the northern districts and high prices have made this season more valuable than ever. Matt Lichtenstein has an update on the seine, gillnet, and troll harvests.
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It was the first day of school for Petersburg students on Monday, but teachers, administrators and other staff started preparations a week ago or more.
Matt Lichtenstein visited the schools Friday afternoon to gather some thoughts from the staff and a few students as they looked forward to a new year of classes.
A team of volunteers from Petersburg freed a young grey whale that was tangled in what appeared to be foreign gillnet gear Friday. The animal was about 20 to 25 feet long and looked to be in bad shape but rescuers are hopeful it will at least be able to feed again, now that it’s no longer entangled.
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A team of four, trained volunteers from Petersburg has been trying to free a young grey whale that’s tangled in some sort fishing net and line. The animal was originally spotted in Ideal Cove, south of Petersburg but the responders found it this morning in the Wrangell Narrows right in front of Town. The team includes Petersburg Marine Mammal Center President Barry Bracken, and Board Members Don Holmes and Sunny Rice, as well as local Fisherman Bob Martin. They’ve all trained to respond to tangled whales as part of the Alaska Marine Mammal Stranding Network.
Grey Whales are unusual for the area. Bracken says the animal appears injured….and emaciated and from what they can see so far, the netting does not look like the type of gillnet gear used in southeast, which suggests the whale may have been tangled for a while.
The team is working from Bracken’s charter vessel “Island Dream” and he gave Matt Lichtenstein an update by cell phone late Friday morning.
An exhibit of 27 new works by local artist Beth Flor is on display at the Miele Gallery in Petersburg. Flor paints in oil on canvas and is well-known for her realistic still-lifes of Mexico and landscapes of Southeast Alaska streams surrounded by grass flats. Matt Lichtenstein stopped by the downtown gallery for a preview of her latest work
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