Petersburg residents got a chance to weigh in on the planned closure of a king salmon sport fishery at a meeting last week. The hatchery-based sport fishery at Blind River Rapids won’t open this summer because of low projected returns. Those returning salmon, or broodstock, are used to raise new fish.
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Every year, Petersburg High School students vie for the chance to take an aquaculture class, where they learn about fish that sustain the local seafood economy — and they do that by raising and releasing salmon into the wild, themselves.
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Two wild animals caused mayhem in two different buildings in Petersburg last month — both, within 24 hours of each other. First, a grouse trespassed in Petersburg’s airport. Then a black bear cub broke into a grocery store downtown — and though neither people nor products were hurt in the chaos, things ended poorly for the young bear.
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Hunters have reached a new high for the month-long moose hunt in Central Southeast: 141 bulls. The new record is nine more than the previous record harvest, which was set in 2021: 132 bulls.
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Birdwatching is one of the fastest-growing nature-based tourism sectors in the world — and the hobby is soaring in popularity in Alaska. Now, Audubon Alaska is swooping in on the virtual bird boom. The organization partnered with the U.S. Forest Service and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to create the Southeast Alaska Birding Trail — a free virtual guide to 18 communities across the bird-rich region.
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The Southeast Alaska Dungeness crab fishery opened on June 15th. But roughly a quarter of the fleet in Petersburg is skipping the season. That’s partly because many of them are expecting low prices.
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The Alaska Department of Fish and Game completed aerial surveys of the Ketchikan and Sitka herring fisheries on March 29th. The Sitka Sound herring sac roe fishery opened briefly yesterday from 11:45 a.m. until 12:45 p.m. The harvest estimate from Monday’s fishery was approximately 650 tons of herring.
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Jeff Rice just took a new position managing Sport Fishing for Petersburg and Wrangell. Rice is not new to Petersburg, but it’s a new role for him. KFSK sat down with Rice in his old office at Petersburg’s Fish and Game to talk about what he hopes to bring to the new position.
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