New rules for resident sport fishermen in the federal waters of the Exclusive Economic Zone will feature in a public Alaska Department of Fish and Game “preseason meeting” on Wednesday night in Centennial Hall. For the first time, residents who...
Held in celebration of the return of herring to Sitka Sound and the coming of spring, this year’s Yaaw Koo.eex’ begins Saturday and will run through the night into Sunday morning, with food, gifts and community activism items planned, starting...
Now that the Sitka Assembly has accepted a proposal from Highmark Marine LLC of Kodiak to operate the city’s new haulout at the Gary Paxton Industrial Park, locals are working with the GPIP board of directors to plan uses of adjacent lands and...
Dozens of gray whales are dancing around in shallow, nearshore waters north of Sitka this spring, raising their tails to the sky as they feed from the seafloor. In recent years, mariners have noticed more and more gray whales visiting...
Following two weeks of consecutive fishery openings, the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery is closed for the season, and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is finalizing harvest data. ADF&G announced late Friday that “broad...
ANNA LAFFREY Sentinel Staff Writer The commercial sac roe herring fishery opened at 8 a.m. today and was to continue until 8 p.m. in waters south of town. While the commercial fishery targets female …
ANNA LAFFREY Sentinel Staff Writer Southeast Alaska fishermen discovered Tuesday that harvest limits for chinook salmon in 2025 will be almost 40 percent less than last …
ANNA LAFFREY Sentinel Staff Writer Participation in the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery is down to "fewer than three" boats actively fishing today in an opening that …
ANNA LAFFREY Sentinel Staff Writer The Sitka Sound commercial sac roe herring fishery opened south of town at 8 a.m. today with fewer than three boats participating, as the major buyer has …
ANNA LAFFREY Sentinel Staff Writer Commercial seine fishermen entered the seventh consecutive day of the sac roe herring fishery today in the same northern area of Sitka Sound that has been the …
ANNA LAFFREY Sentinel Staff Writer Sitkans woke to warm sea air today as the Alaska Department of Fish and Game observed about 18 miles of active herring spawn on shores around town, up from the 6.5 …
By ANNA LAFFREY Sentinel Staff Writer Sitka Tribe of Alaska Tribal Council is asking state lawmakers to sponsor legislation that would designate Pacific herring as a …
ANNA LAFFREY Sentinel Staff Writer After indicating last week that all commercial sac roe herring fishery harvest data would be confidential this year, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has …
GARLAND KENNEDY and ANNA LAFFREY Sentinel Staff Writers Shorelines around town took on an aquamarine hue Monday and today as spawning herring continued their annual return to Sitka Sound. Commercial …
By ANNA LAFFREY Sentinel Staff Writer Seiners scooped up sets of maturing herring on Saturday and Sunday as the Alaska Department of Fish and Game opened this year’s …
GARLAND KENNEDY and ANNA LAFFREY Sentinel Staff Writers Following two more days of surveys from the air and by sea, Fish and Game is reporting that schools of herring …
By YERETH ROSEN Alaska Beacon Membership on the Alaska Board of Fisheries would be restructured to guarantee representation for the state’s different fishing sectors, under a bill pending in …
By Sentinel Staff Silver Bay Seafoods will be acquiring an interest in OBI Seafoods, and managing all OBI facilities and operations including plants in Southeast, …
GARLAND KENNEDY Sentinel Staff Writer Working from boats and planes, Fish and Game biologists have started their annual search of Sitka Sound for signs of herring for the annual commercial sac …
