UPDATE: According to a statement from the U.S. Coast Guard, they may be unable to hear distress calls on the region’s emergency VHF channel for 3-5 minutes intervals throughout this week.
Read More
Southeast Alaska’s first competitive commercial red king crab fishery in eight years opens on Saturday. Red king crab in Southeast Alaska is a low-volume, high-value commercial fishery. Commercial openings have been few and far between, with just one in over a decade. The approaching fishery marks a highly-anticipated comeback.
Read More
Hunters harvested 145 moose during the month-long bull moose hunt in central Southeast Alaska (RM038), which ended Oct. 15. That combined total includes 138 legal and seven illegal harvests.
Read More
Communities in Southeast Alaska braced for hurricane-force winds forecasted to sweep the region on Sept. 26. While much of the Panhandle avoided catastrophic damage, residents are still cleaning up the mess.
Read More
In Southeast Alaska, some small-town newspapers run on girl power. The printing press at the Petersburg Pilot is one of only a handful in the country operated by a woman — and it has been for decades. Even the printing press itself is called “she” as a tribute to its late operator.
Read More
Commercial fishermen left a number of Dungeness crab in Southeast Alaska waters this summer because they had soft shells and were not marketable yet. Fishery managers determined those crab contributed to subpar harvest projections, and found the estimate was actually higher when accounting for the soft-shell crab. Both of those factors allow the fishery’s fall season to go its full length.
Read More
Commercial openings for the low-volume, high-value red king crab fishery have been few and far between in Southeast Alaska. But this year, crab stock conditions are adequate for a competitive commercial fishery, according to surveys done by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
Read More
Some sections of the Three Lakes trail system got upgraded this summer, with help from seasonal workers contracted by the U.S. Forest Service.
Read More
