Board requires daily bag limits for subsistence shrimp harvest
The Alaska Board of Fisheries has decided to limit the amount of shrimp harvested and require a non-commercial household permit for subsistence fishing in Hoonah Sound.
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Testimony opens at Alaska Board of Fisheries meeting in Sitka
And so it begins. The Alaska Board of Fisheries will be in Sitka for almost two full weeks considering hundreds of proposals for changes in the management of Southeast Alaska's shellfish, herring, salmon, and bottomfish fisheries.
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Silver Bay plans for two aquatic farm sites north of Sitka
A local seafood processor is getting into the shellfish game. Silver Bay Seafoods applied for two mariculture leases earlier this year. The leases are good for ten years. If approved by the state, they will install 22 rafts in two separate locations northwest of Sitka for raising shellfish.
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USCG cadets excited to present shellfish findings
US Coast Guard Academy cadets, Lindsey Critser and Cecelia Hosley along with Sitka Sound Science Center Research Biologist, Lauren Bell, talk about their research replicating a shellfish survey for the Sitka Tribe out at Starrigavan.
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New network of tribes expands toxic shellfish testing
A new lab in Sitka tests regularly for shellfish toxins and is now teaching more than a dozen tribes in the region to do the same
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