The commercial herring fishery is on hold in Unalaska — because no one can find the fish.
Fisheries
Eight tons of chum salmon destroyed after truck spill
Roughly 16,000 pounds of chum spilled onto Egan Drive Monday afternoon. Declared unsafe for consumption, the fish have been destroyed.
Overturned truck blocks Egan with load of fish
A truck that turned over on Egan Drive spilled the fish it was carrying and temporarily blocked the road for almost 3 hours Monday.
Sitka Seafood Festival issues SOS
The Sitka Seafood Festival has issued a call for help after the 2016 event was placed on hold earlier this year.
The year Bristol Bay landed its 2 billionth salmon
Bristol Bay is home to the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world. The 2 billionth salmon was landed sometime, by someone, on July 6, 2016.
Broken ice machine stymies commercial fishing in Marshall and Russian Mission
Marshall’s Maserculiq Native Corp. owns the machine but has made no effort to fix it since the compressor quit working.