Sport Rockfish
Fishery Opens
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announces a harvest opportunity for demersal shelf rockfish, excluding yelloweye, for Alaska resident anglers.
The daily bag and possession limit for residents now is one demersal shelf rockfish, excluding yelloweye. They include quillback, copper, China, canary, tiger and rosethorn.
Nonresident anglers may not retain demersal shelf rockfish.
Other current rockfish regulations include:
Slope rockfish: one per day, one in possession (all anglers);
Pelagic rockfish: five per day, 10 in possession (all anglers), except in Sitka where nonresident limits are three per day, six in possession.
When releasing rockfish, anglers must use a deepwater release mechanism to return the fish to the depth it was hooked or to a depth of at least 100 feet. F&G said all vessels must have at least one functional deepwater release mechanism on board and readily available for use when saltwater sport fishing activities are taking place.
T’ai Chi Chih
Practice on Tap
A T’ai Chi Chih practice will be held 10 a.m. Saturday, April 16, behind Sitka Public Library.
Methodists Set
Holy Week Events
Holy Week offerings at the United Methodist Church, 303 Kimsham Street, have been announced.
Services will include: Taize Maundy Thursday, 5:30 p.m.; Good Friday contemplative service (Were You There?), 5:30 p.m. Friday; and Easter Sunday celebration at 10 a.m. Sunday.
School Board Sets
April 18 Meeting
The Sitka School Board will hold a special meeting in executive session 6 p.m. Monday, April 18, at the district office board room to carry out the superintendent evaluation and contract. A negotiations update also will be discussed.
Car Wash to
Benefit Refugees
The Blatchley Middle School student council will host a car wash at the Elks Lodge 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday. All proceeds will be donated to the Red Cross in support of Ukrainian refugees.
F&G Advisory
Meeting April 27
The Sitka Fish and Game Advisory Committee will hold a meeting and member election 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 27, on Zoom.
Member elections will be held for designated seats including longline, power troll, conservation, at-large, guide, shellfish and alternate.
The March Board of Fisheries Southeast Region Meeting in Anchorage will be reported on.
Discussion of potential Board of Game proposals for submission to the Southeast Region meeting are planned. Proposals are due April 29.
The meeting is open to the public. Residents of the area who attend the meeting and are of legal voting age may make nominations and vote on committee membership.
To join the meeting on Zoom, go to: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88501271495?pwd=UmVxYVd0Ympaa3FEU0txdG9DT2hQZz09. Join by phone at 253-215-8782. The meeting ID is 885 0127 1495, and the passcode is Sitka (200352 by phone).
For further information and, contact Heather Bauscher, chair, heatherbauscher@gmail.com, John Murray, vice chair, jmfish3@gmail.com or Annie Bartholomew at the Department of Fish & Game.
Johnson Placed
On Honor Roll
Hunter Johnson, a 2021 Sitka High School graduate, has earned a place on the Spokane Community College honor roll for winter quarter.
Students on the honor roll earned a GPA of 3.0 or above for the quarter.
The college is located in Spokane, Washington.
