April 2012 - Page 9 of 10

Suppertime!

Sitkan Steve Edenshaw loads a fish box with herring roe aboard the Jade Ann in Eliason Harbor on Wednesday afternoon (4-4-12). Edenshaw says his favorite way of eating the subsistence staple is to blanch the eggs briefly in boiling water, then serve them with butter and salt, or seal grease, if he has any. Delbert Kadake, the skipper of the Jade Ann, which homeports in Kake, prefers his eggs dipped in hooligan oil. Kadake says he's distributed around 11,000 pounds of herring roe-on-branches to about 120 people so far. He expects to hit 15,000 pounds before the spawn tapers off.

Mt. Edgecumbe dancers share Yup’ik culture in Europe

Some students at Mt. Edgecumbe High School in Sitka recently went on a field trip – the kind of field trip we all might like to take, if we didn’t mind dancing in front of thousands of people. Eight members of the school’s Yup’ik dance ensemble traveled to the Netherlands in January to perform at a cultural festival. And on their way home, they stopped in Rotterdam and Paris to hold workshops on traditional Yup’ik dance.

Thodos Dance Chicago: Creative dance on tour

Melissa Thodos is the director and founder of Thodos Dance Chicago. Her company will perform in Sitka 7 PM Wed Apr 11 in the Sitka Performing Arts Center (tickets $20/$15 at Old Harbor Books). With Alaska Arts Southeast director Roger Schmidt and board member Kris Fulton.

Wed Apr 4, 2012

Sitka herring fishermen to stand down until Thursday, to allow processors and tenders to catch up with the two harvests so far. Bears awake in Sitka, ADF&G reminds residents of common-sense precautions. Mt. Edgecumbe's Yup'ik Dancers tour Netherlands, Paris. Petersburg will resume fight against the state redistricting plan.

Spawn map, Apr 3, 2012

The Alaska Department of Fish & Game released this map of active herring spawn based on aerial surveys conducted Tue Apr 3, 2012.

Ghost ship

The derelict Japanese fishing vessel RYOU-UN MARU drifts more than 125 miles from Forrester Island (near Dixon Entrance) in Southeast Alaska where it entered U.S. waters on Saturday (3-31-12). The fishing vessel has been drifting unmanned at sea since the 2011 Fukoshima earthquake and subsequent tsunami more than a year ago. The crew of a Coast Guard C-130 dropped a data buoy to help monitor the drift of the hulk. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Air Station Kodiak)

Safety reminders as bear sightings begin

ADF&G biologist Phil Mooney says some joggers spotted a brown bear at about 5:30 p.m. Monday in the Benchlands between Kramer Avenue and Harbor Mountain Road. Mooney also says trash cans were knocked over along Sawmill Creek Road.

5,610 tons in second Sitka herring opening

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game estimates fishermen cought roughly 5,600 tons of fish during the second opening on Monday. That brings the total harvested so far to about 10,400 tons, or more than a third of this year’s guideline harvest level.

Herring spawn map, Apr 2, 2012

The Alaska Department of Fish & Game mapped 17.4 nautical miles of active herring spawn during aerial surveys on Monday April 2, 2012.

Mt. Edgecumbe’s Yupik dancers tour Netherlands, Paris

Cecelia Chikigak (Sr-Alakanuk), Baxter Bond (Sr-Tununak), and Corey Meyers (Sr-Pilot Station) discuss their recent visit with five other dancers to Den Bosch, Netherlands, and to Paris. With Michael Dempster, Yupik Dance coordinator.SHS Track coach Chloe Copeland (and Phoebe Snow) talks about this Thursday's Bridge-a-thon fundraiser from 4:30 - 5:30 PM (to pledge, call the high school at 747-3263), and the annual Toilet Paper Fun Run (a door-to-door fundraiser) on Tue Apr 17.