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An array of 19 new seafood products will compete for top honors at the annual Symphony of Seafood contest, and the crowd will choose the popular People’s Choice award. The Symphony began nearly two decades ago as a way to celebrate innovation and introduce new Alaska seafood products. The event provides an even playing field for Alaska’s major seafood companies and small ‘mom and pops, such as Tustamena Smokehouse in Kasilof with its salmon bacon. “It is the most wonderful stuff. It doesn’t taste fishy; it just tastes like wonderful low fat b...
KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — Seventy-five percent of Alaska's salmon packers have decided to pull out of the Marine Stewardship Council's fisheries certification program when the current agreement expires at the end of October. Those processors are Trident, Icicle, Ocean Beauty, Peter Pan, Alaska General, E-and-E, Kwikpak and North Pacific. The MSC uses third-party verification of a fishery's sustainability and adherence to best practices. The board of the Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation concurred with the move on Monday. That organization has...
The Petersburg Fish and Game Advisory Committee elections and meeting will be held January 21 at the Petersburg City Council Chambers, 6:30 p.m. There are up to 15 seats open for election/re-election. Anyone interested in serving on this committee is encouraged to attend. Following elections, the Petersburg AC will be discussing upcoming Board of Fisheries Southeast Finfish issues. If you are interested in any of the issues on the table you are highly encouraged to attend this meeting. Open to the public. The Petersburg Fish and Game Advisory...
Most people don’t know that 40 years ago Alaska pioneered the use of sonar to track salmon runs, or that state fishery managers operate 15 sonar sites on 13 rivers from Southeast to the Yukon. The goal of making Alaskans more aware of one of Alaska’s most important fish counting tools has been accomplished with the launch of new web based project that lets visitors see three types of sonar in action. The site explains that traditional tools such as weirs and counting towers can be used to count salmon in clear, narrow streams, but not in wide,...
Petersburg will host the Alaska Board of Fisheries meeting for Southeast and Yakutat Crab, Shrimp and miscellaneous Shellfish fisheries January 15-21 at the Sons of Norway Hall on Sing Lee Alley. The meeting begins Sunday, Jan. 15 at 8:30 a.m. with introductions of staff and the board members and in the afternoon testimony will be heard from both the public and the advisory committee. Sunday’s public testimony will continue until all those present at the meeting are heard, according to the board’s tentative agenda. At 4:30 p.m. Sunday a Sea...
