Herring seiners are not the only fishermen commuting long-distance to Sitka this spring. A half-ton Steller sea lion has been seen in and around Sitka’s harbors over the last few days browsing on the abundant herring. The animal, which has an innovative cell-phone tracking device, was tagged – just over a month ago – at the Bonneville Dam near Portland, Oregon, about 900 miles to the south.
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Sitka Community Theater producer Shannon Haugland discusses this year's performance of Ken Ludwig's "Moon Over Buffalo," which opens 7 PM Friday April 6 at the Sitka Performing Arts Center, and plays again at 7 PM on Saturday and Sunday (tickets $10/$7 at Old Harbor Books).
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Science mentors program gives students hands-on research experience. Term limits question to appear on Sealaska 2011 corporate ballot. Coast Guard signs agreement pledging continued cooperation with Russian counterpart.
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The Alaska Department of Fish & Game released this map of active herring spawn based on aerial surveys made on Wed Apr 4, 2012.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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The Alaska Department of Fish & Game released this map of active herring spawn based on aerial surveys conducted Tue Apr 3, 2012.
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)
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