The Alaska House of Representatives passed a resolution to protect Southeast Alaska’s troll fishery on Wednesday. House Joint Resolution 5 calls for state and federal agencies to defend Alaska’s troll fisheries from a lawsuit that seeks to hold them accountable for the decline in killer whales in the Puget Sound area.
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Long-time Sitka teacher Rebecca Himschoot recently became a freshman in the Alaska Legislature as the District 2 House representative. District Two includes Petersburg, Sitka, Yakutat, Craig, Hoonah, Kake, and much of Southeast Alaska. Himschoot is an independent and replaced Representative Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, who held the position for ten years as a Democrat.
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Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration visited Petersburg to take the pulse on climate change from the local fishing fleet.
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As UFA’s director, Frances Leach was vocal in her opposition to Pebble Mine and threats from transboundary mining. She says she’ll be setting up shop as a Juneau lobbyist for commercial fishing groups, environmentalists and nonprofits in 2022.
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Dungeness fishing season starts strong for one local fisherman.
Read MoreLast weekend’s fall chum salmon opening in Southern Southeast marked the end of the seine season for the most part in the panhandle this year. It looks like the 2011 seine fishery had a record value with the combination of a big pink harvest in northern southeast, good chum catches in the south, and high prices all around.
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