Month: March 2014

Thu Mar 27, 2014

Third herring opener targets fish south of town. Herring Rock Ceremony honors the renewal of the seasons and the beginning of the subsistence harvest. Great Alaska Quake, Part 4: Sitkans react to tsunami surge.

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Ceremony at Herring Rock honors seasonal renewal

Beginning in mid-March in Sitka, there is no escaping the excitement surrounding the commercial sac roe herring fishery. Big seiners from around Southeast raft up in the harbors, waiting for the large masses of herring to school up near shore. But the annual arrival of the herring marks the opening of another important -- and just as exciting -- season: subsistence.

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Radio on wheels!

Sometimes radio can seem like magic: you turn the dial (or press a button) and the sound streams in. But all that sound comes to us from somewhere, whether it's "Fresh Air" broadcasting from Philadelphia, or "This American Life," transmitting from Chicago, or "All Things Considered" from Washington, D.C. And it gets here via the Public Radio Satellite System -- which includes this satellite dish, now nestled under the O'Connell Bridge. Help us keep our nuts and bolts in good repair! Donate to our Spring Drive.

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Herring fishing possible today; no opening called yet

The Alaska Department of Fish & Game said in their 11 a.m. update that a significant volume of herring has moved into the closure area, a stretch of water near town that is out of bounds to the commercial fishery, to protect subsistence use. Fish & Game biologist Dave Gordon said he wasn't discounting the possibility of a fishery south of town, where large schools of fish were found yesterday, but he wanted to give it more time "to find a body of fish that might provide a better fishery for everybody."

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