Prince William Sound Shrimp Season Underway for First Time in Three Years (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] April 22, 2015
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Fishing updates and fish budget cuts. That’s up after this
As always in Alaska, lots of fishing is going on from Ketchikan to the Bering Sea. Salmon trollers are back out on the water at Neets Bay near Ketchikan , and it’s hard to believe that the 2015 salmon season will officially kick off in just a few weeks at Copper River.
More than 50 boats are dropping pots for nearly 70,000 pounds of shrimp at Prince William Sound after a three year closure. The fishery opened April 15th. A beam trawl shrimp fishery opens in Southeast May 1 for pinks and side stripes.
Kodiak’s roe herring fishery is slow going a week into the fishery. Still no action at Togiak, home to Alaska’s largest herring fishery, where boats and five buyers await a catch of 29,000 tons.
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