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830AM KSDP Radio News Archive - 830 AM KSDP – Sand Point, AK - page 8
Area M Salmon Season Round Up
By Evan W. and Jillian B., Seniors at Sand Point School
Jillian B.:
The AK Peninsula, named by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game as Area M, recorded the 2nd overall salmon catch on record for 2015. Even with vessels on catch limits, the season featured a record-breaking haul of nearly 16.7 million pink salmon. Despite the catch records, low prices this season significantly impacted profits fleet-wide.
In Sand Point, fishing is not just the primary economic activity, it is a family business that is passed down through generations.
Evan has been fishing since he was six years old, and got to experience the 2015 salmon harvest on board the F/V Celtic, a 58’ hansen purse seiner fishing out of Sand Point. Of all the seasons he’s had this was something special….
Evan W.:
I remember waking up to at least 10 boats waiting to make one set so they could go home. With all their lights on, it looked like the sun was rising. Once it was our turn to make a set we knew what was coming: a lot of fish, so we were excited to make the set. We got to the wedge of our net and all we could see was this huge ball of fish and when we started rolling them aboard. It seemed like it was never ending. The rails of the boat were under water at times and the deck was full of pinks it was just unreal to catch that many in one set.
Jillian B.:
Comparatively, the 1995 season holds Area M’s overall salmon catch record of 24.8 million fish;
Danny Cumberlidge, Evan’s father (who at the time was nearly the same age), remembers the season from 20 years ago very well.
Danny Cumberlidge:
The 1995 salmon season was a large year, we had a lot of humpies come back and return that year. It was probably one of the better returns we had above probably the 10 year average. Prices for the season in 1995…. We actually had a better price than what we had this year. In 1995 I think we got paid somewhere in the ballpark of $1.20 a pound for sockeye vs the $.75 this year. The pinks… I believe it was in the higher 20’s [cents per pound] closer to 30’s low 30’s [cents per pound] in 95 vs. this year it was 20 [cents per pound] the fish was quite a bit higher.
[Reporting from KSDP I’m Jillian and I’m Evan, Thanks for listening]
On Friday, November 21st, 2015 at 10AM, KSDP will be speaking with ADF&G’s Trent Hartill, Asst. Area Management Biologist for Shellfish & Groundfish.
We’ll be discussing the (lack of) a 2015 Tanner Crab season and the trawl surveys that led to that decision. We’re hoping to have a bit of preliminary discussion about the 2015 State Cod season as well.
1pm on March 10th, 2014: Bigwave Dave spoke with Trent Hartill, Groundfish Management Biologist for Alaska Department of Fish & Game.
He got an update on the pot cod quota for the South Alaska Peninsula (18,408,522lbs total GHL for 2014). Trent said that approximately 3 million pounds had been caught so far and a bit more than 15 million pounds was still available for harvest.
KSDP’s Austin Roof spoke with Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge‘s Manager Steve Delehanty and Invasive Species Biologist Steve Ebbert before their Open House in Sand Point on January 15th, 2014. They talked about the scoping process that AMNWR has begun in order to deal with unauthorized cattle on two refuge islands.
We’ll be talking about some of the recent publications about his genetic research concerning the cattle on Chirikof Island as well as bison subspecies.
An interview with Craig Campbell, CEO of Alaska Aerospace Corporation discussing the use of Sand Point as a future off-axis tracking station and the future of Space in Alaska!
KSDP spoke live on-air with Mark Stichert, Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s Shellfish Management Biologist at 1pm on Friday, Nov. 29th, 2013.
We talked about the 2013 Tanner crab (Chionoecetes bairdi) Bottom Trawl Surveys & 2014 Tanner Crab Seasons in the Chignik and South Peninsula Districts.
Stream it (FLASH):[audio:http://apradio.org/news/wp-content/themes/BLANK-Theme/mp3/11-29-2013-stichert-tanner.mp3]
Governor Parnell Says Federal Decision Against Road
Threatens King Cove Residents
February 5, 2013, Juneau, Alaska – Governor Sean Parnell expressed deep frustration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (USFWS) selection of a “no action†alternative in the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the King Cove to Cold Bay access project. (more…)
KSDP’s Virgil Porter interviewed State House Rep. Bob Herron (House District 37 – Bethel) on Thurs., Jan. 24th, 2011 at 3:30pm.
We covered his background, had an introduction to our new Representative & got an idea about what the 28th Alaska State Legislature holds in store for our region.
