A 22-year-old fisherman is alive and well after a seining accident in Southeast Alaska late last month pulled him overboard. His crewmates successfully retrieved and revived him with CPR in a dramatic life-saving rescue. He is home making a full recovery, and plans to keep fishing — but with a different mindset.
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Pink salmon are finally showing up in Southeast Alaska, and that’s good news for the commercial fishing industry.
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Southeast Alaska’s commercial Dungeness crab summer season ended three weeks early, on July 25. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game said the amount fishermen caught at the beginning of the season was the lowest amount in over 30 years.
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Fish and Game is extending the area that sport anglers can fish and increasing the amount they can harvest, starting Saturday (July 18). Enough king salmon have returned to the hatchery, leading to more fishing opportunity.
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Throughout the three-day program, organized by Alaska SeaGrant, students learned to put out fires, tie knots, de-escalate conflict between crewmates, and even how to save a person overboard.
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A crowd packed onto the docks on Petersburg’s north harbor near a bright white seiner on May 6. The community was there to celebrate the 80th birthday of the Symphony, which had spent time as a seiner, long liner, crabber, and shrimper.
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It’s the first time in a few years that both residents and nonresidents can fish for hatchery king salmon in the slough’s freshwater. Anglers could be interviewed by Fish and Game staff researching there for a survey program this summer.
The City Creek release site near Petersburg is permanently discontinued as of this year. It’s now just part of the larger fishing district, which is closed to retention until mid-July.
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The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced updated sport fishing regulations for Southeast Alaska. Resident sport anglers can harvest up to two wild king salmon a day. Nonresidents can harvest one per year, except for a three-fish window through June.
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