Southeast fishermen say they’re not getting their fair share of an abundance of kings. The state of Alaska has been locked in a fight with its neighbors to the south over how many fish the fleet can catch.
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Summer king season to open July 1, but not without protest
The state says this year’s quota for Alaska fishermen under the Pacific Salmon treaty is too low.
City of Sitka considers taking over visitors bureau duties
The visitor’s bureau has been operating under a cloud of uncertainty since February when the assembly voted to dissolve the bureau and issue a bid for an outside entity to do its work marketing Sitka and coordinating visitor services.
Sitka grapples with $300K cut to jail budget
Last year the Department of Corrections provided about $700,000 to the city to run the jail – that’s essentially Sitka’s entire jail budget.
Cameras to remedy observer problems in Alaska?
Smaller boats in Alaska’s offshore fisheries may no longer have to carry human observers in the future, if a plan to deploy cameras proves feasible.
With fish in the sea, danger of eagles on Sitka runway
As fishing season moves into full swing, so does the workload of the staff who haze birds off of Sitka’s runway.