Abundance of Humpback Activity Slows Dutch Harbor Herring Fishery
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [ALASKA DISPATCH NEWS] Jim Paulin - July 27, 2015
The herring fishing is a little slow, but the humpback whale watching was awesome, according to the state biologist managing the commercial bait harvest in the eastern Aleutian Islands.
“I’ve never seen that many whales concentrated in one area. It looked like a couple of hundred whales,” said Charles Russell of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. He reported “world class whale viewing” as he flew over the small purse seine herring fleet between Akun and Akutan islands in the eastern Aleutians.
“There’s just humpbacks everywhere,” leading to ...
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