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This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch … Alaska crabbers sign on for the biggest survey ever.
Alaska’s golden king crab fleet plans to undertake the biggest survey ever on the entire range of the Aleutian Islands golden crab stock. It covers an 800 mile span from Dutch Harbor to Atka. Listen, and read more here 15:34
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Crab updates and outlooks for seafood at supermarkets.
Lots of Tanner crab is coming out of Alaska this winter. Southeast Alaska wrapped up its best fishery in a decade with 80 crabbers hauling up one and a quarter million pounds in 11 days. At an average fishermen’s price to of $2.70/lb the Tanner fishery is worth more than $3 million to the region. Read more here 18:47
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Alaska’s salmon hatcheries set records last year
Alaska’s salmon catch set a record last year– and so did the salmon returns to Alaska hatcheries. The 2013 Alaska salmon catch was an all time high of 283 million fish and hatchery returns topped 110 million. Read more here 17:37
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch … Pet treats from pollock skins.
Getting value from every part of the fish is the focus of Alaska’s pollock industry. What used to be regarded as ‘byproducts’ of fish fillets or surimi are better called ‘co-products’, says food chemist Alex Oliveira – Hear the report 13:39
Finding clues to disappearing king crab – This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch
Did you know that red king crab are cannibals and eat their babies, but blue king crab do not? Or that deep water golden king crabs are almost indestructible and appear to resist ocean acidification? Those are just a few of the things being studied at the nation’s top king crab lab at Kodiak. Read more here 17:25
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Halibut opens and herring’s up next. More after this –
Alaska longliners are ready to steam out of town for the Saturday start of the Pacific halibut fishery. Alaska’s catch of roughly 19 million pounds is down about 11 percent. The sablefish, or black cod, fishery also opens,,, Read more here 17:43
Lent begins = Biggest time of the year for seafood sales
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch….Today marks the start of Lent – and the biggest season for seafood sales. I’ll tell you more after this,, Read more here 17:34
Valentine’s Day seafood favorites; Best ‘libido lifters’ are from cold water!
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch….Seafood helps share the love! The most popular Valentine’s Day dishes after this – more@fishradio 10:49
Pollock as halibut bait shows mixed results, Good in the GOA! This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch
Pollock has been tested as a halibut bait to replace pricier chum salmon. Each year halibut researchers use over 300-thousand pounds of chums in their stock surveys, costing nearly half a million dollars. The baits are used at more than 1,200 testing stations from Oregon to the Bering Sea. A study three years ago showed some promising signs for pollock. Listen @fishradio 19:55
New seafood products to be showcased at the upcoming Symphony of Seafood galas in Seattle and Anchorage.
“Developing new products is really hard,” said Julie Decker, new executive director of the Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation which hosts the event. (Decker replaces Jim Browning who retired,) “It costs a lot of money, takes a lot of time and attention, and sometimes the products are wonderful and sometimes they are not. So this event really helps companies determine how the market place is going to receive their product.” Read more@sitnews 15:11
Two From Alaska Fish Radio
Apply now for wide range of good paying internships at ADF&G – This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Your career in the Last Frontier – Fish and Game goes all out to attract new workers. Read more here
Strong US dollar = more expensive for AK seafood exports; cheaper for imports – How a strong US dollar affects Alaska seafood sales. Listen @alaskafishradio 17:42
Four posts from Fish Radio
Sen. Murkowski asks for 60 day extend for input on undersea sounds/marine mammals – Listen @fishradio
AK halibut = 19.7 million pounds; IPHC meeting round-up – Read more@fishradio
AK salmon final numbers for 2013; Copper River catches for 2014 – Read more@fishradio
ASMI’s Photo Contest Captures Alaska’s Commercial Fishing Family’s – Listen @fishradio 20:47
Alaska Fish Factor: Good Science Should Drive Fisheries Policy
US – Good science should drive all fisheries decisions, and Lite Guv Mead Treadwell says he has the chops to maintain a true course.Treadwell, a Republican who hopes to unseat Democratic US Senator Mark Begich in November’s election, paid a recent visit to Kodiak and “talked fish” in a brief interview. Comment deadline flub – No one appears to know that a deadline to have a say on how man-made sounds affect marine mammals is January 27. Two days after Christmas, NOAA released its “Draft Guidance for Assessing the Effects of Anthropogenic [man made] Sound on Marine Mammals,” which seeks to improve understanding of acoustical impacts on the animals. Read more@thefishsite 13:40
Alaska Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell talks fish in Kodiak – hopes to unseat US Senator Mark Begich in November’s election.
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Lieutenant Governor Mead Treadwell talks fish in Kodiak. Listen @fishradio 19:50
Halibut catches set this week by IPHC
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch … This year’s halibut catches, season start and end dates and much more will be decided this week at the Ninetieth Annual Meeting of the International Pacific Halibut Commission in Seattle. Read more@alaskafishradio 16:18
Board of Fish at Kodiak: permit stacking, trawling hot topics; Wal-Mart reps talk salmon at Juneau
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch — The Fish Board comes to Kodiak and Wal-Mart reps talk salmon in Alaska – Permit stacking and trawl fisheries are the topics that will likely get the most attention when the State Board of Fisheries meets in Kodiak today through Friday. Read more@fishradio 17:43
In Deep Winter Alaska’s Largest Fisheries Get Underway
(SitNews) – Salmon will always be the heart of Alaska’s fisheries. That’s why many people think of summer as “the fishing season.” But that’s not the case. The deep of winter is when Alaska’s largest fisheries get underway each year. On January first, hundreds of boats with hook and line gear or big pots will begin plying the waters of the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska for Pacific cod, rockfish and other groundfish. Then on January 20th trawlers take to the seas to target Alaska pollock, the world’s largest food fishery with harvests near three billion pounds. Read more@sitnews 12:59
More bycatch going to foodbanks
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Alaska’s bycatch goes to more food banks. I’ll tell you more after this –Listen @fishradio 16:02
Laine Welch: From sockeye to basketballs, the notable fishing news of 2013
Alaska’s seafood industry worked hard again in 2013 to ramp up its message to policymakers, most of whom still tend to overlook the industry’s economic significance to the state and beyond. What is that message? That “the industry” is made up of thousands of small businesses — the fishing boats that each supports one or several families. That the seafood companies in coastal towns provide one of the state’s biggest tax bases. Together, fishing and processing provide more jobs in Alaska than oil and gas, mining, tourism and timber combined. Seafood is Alaska’s top export, far exceeding all other natural resources. Here are some other “news notes” from 2013, in no particular order. Read more @fishradio 12:43
Moms talk about their kids choosing a fishing career – This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch
You’ve heard the song “Mommas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys.” You’ll hear how Kodiak moms feel about their kids growing up to be commercial fishermen after this – Listen and more@fishradio 23:10
EMS is easy; AK fishermen will shape the program
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – It’s the fishermen who will shape Alaska’s electronic monitoring. More after this – Listen, and READ more@fishradio 17:24
Three from Fish Radio
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch — More Alaskans are taking to the fishing life. I’ll tell you more after this –
The number of “boots on deck” has been on a slight uptick across Alaska for three years running. That’s according to the latest Economic Trends by the state Labor Department. The report also looks at how much time goes into gear work, and what jobs fishermen do during the off times. more@fishradio 19:38
Alaska: Halibut=down; pollock=up; cod=up; sablefish=down; Sitka herring=up
Next year’s halibut catches will decrease again for all regions except Southeast Alaska, if managers follow the lead of their science advisors. The International Pacific Halibut Commission recommended a 2014 coast wide commercial catch of just under 25 million pounds, a 21 percent decrease from the 31 million pounds allowed for this year. Alaska’s share of the catch would be 18.7 million pounds. more@fishradio 17:13
Frankenfish Christmas surprise? Sen. Begich says no way! – This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch
Slipped in among the Christmas gifts last year was a sneaky nod for Frankenfish by the FDA. The Food and Drug Administration chose the holidays to release its environmental assessment saying that genetically modified salmon made by a company called AquaBounty,,, Listen@fishradio 15:50
Big week for AK fish meetings: IPHC/halibut catches, BOF & NPFMC
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch. Halibut catches – Board of Fish and the Council. It’s a big week for fish meetings. More@fishradio 16:26
Fish Farts? Yes, Fish Farts! – Fish ‘soundscape’ tells where they are, what they are doing
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch — Fish sounds gives clues to where they are and what they’re doing. More after this – Listen@fishradio
2014 Alaska groundfish catches set for release
The numbers for next year’s groundfish catch quotas are scheduled to be posted today/Tuesday by federal overseers. This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – A first glimpse at next year’s groundfish catches. More after this @fishradio 19:14
Training future AK seafood processing pros – This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch
People often talk about the graying of the fleet and the need to build future ranks of fishermen. The same applies to Alaska processors who also need recruits to keep those companies working. That’s been the goal of the Alaska Seafood Processing Leadership Institute, begun by Alaska Sea Grant in 2006. listen@fishradio 16:32
Acoustics comments extended; Walmart seals AK salmon deal, BOF at UCI
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