TRUCK FIRE – Firefighters knock down a fire in a Ford Explorer truck in Arrowhead Trailer Park in the 1200 block of Sawmill Creek Road Saturday evening. One person received fire-related injuries and was taken to the hospital, Sitka Fire Department Chief Craig Warren said, and the truck was considered a total loss. The cause of the fire is under investigation, Warren said. The fire hall received the call about the fire at 5:33 p.m., and one fire engine with eight firefighters and an ambulance were dispatched, he said. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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By SHANNON HAUGLAND
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Alaska Department of Fish and Game wrapped up the daily aerial surveys of herring spawn around Sitka today, and it looks like activity is reaching an end, Fish and Game Area Management Biologist Eric Coonradt said.
A total of eight-tenths of a nautical mile of active spawn was measured Thursday, and a half-nautical mile was added today in Salisbury Sound, bringing the total of active spawn observed to 60.44 nautical miles for the season.
Since the end of the fishery on March 27, biologists have continued measuring spawn and updating the public on where spawning is occurring. But now that it appears to be on the downswing. Coonradt said small plane pilots will keep an eye out for spawning on the sound during their regular flights, and Fish and Game will go back up if further spawning is seen.
In general, it’s been a long spawning season, Coonradt said.
“This has been going on pretty steady since the end of March,” he said. The first spot spawn was March 20, stopped, started again on March 29 and has been continuous since then. “We’ve been flying nonstop since the 15th (of March). We’re going to call it good for now.”
Biologists measure spawn mileage from the air, and the width, depth and density of spawn in the water with spawn deposition surveys. The first spawn deposition survey has been completed, and another likely will be made next week.
Coonradt said from his casual observation the spawn last year went deeper than this year, and the spawn mileage appears to be about the same.
“My recollection is it went deeper – to the 50s or 60s last year,” he said referring to the depth of the eggs by feet. “This year it didn’t seem like we went past the 30s. We’re probably looking at something fairly similar as far as (spawn) mileage goes.”
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Businesses using the Centennial Hall parking lot testified Tuesday against a proposal to charge them rent in addition to the $200 annual permit fee. City Administrator Hugh Bevan made the proposal in response to the Assembly’s direction to Centennial Hall manager Don Kluting to try to close the $340,000 gap between building revenues and operational costs.
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Alaska Native Brotherhood Grand President William S. Paul Sr. will be special guest and speaker at the local ANB, Alaska Native Sisterhood Founders Day program Monday at the ANB Hall.