Saturday
October 02, 2004
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Ketchikan: Ketchikan
Ranks in Top U.S. Ports For Landings and Fishery Values - Ranking
in the top 10 leading U.S. ports in volume and value of fish
and shellfish landed in 2002 and 2003 was Ketchikan, according
to NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service. Ketchikan ranked
10th in quanity of landings in 2003 with 93.7 million pounds
- up from 73.2 million pounds in 2002. The 2003 dollar value
of landings at Ketchikan was $48.7 million in 2003 - significantly
up from $12.8 million in 2002. Ketchikan ranked 6th in the top
U.S. ports in dollar value of landings.
Commercial fishermen unloaded
900.7 million pounds of fish and shellfish at the port of Dutch
Harbor-Unalaska, Alaska, making it the top port in the United
States for landings in 2003, according to the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration. In an announcement Thursday,
NOAA also said that the port of New Bedford, Mass., claimed the
top spot for highest value of landings with $176.2 million for
2003.
Dutch Harbor-Unalaska netted
the top landings slot for the 15th consecutive year, according
to NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service, although the total
fish and shellfish landings had decreased 7.4 million pounds
from the record 2002 level. - More...
Saturday - October 02, 2004
Alaska: UFA
objects to canned and smoked salmon exclusion from Country of
Origin Labeling - The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service
on Thursday released the Interim Final Rule on Country of Origin
Labeling (COOL).
"United Fishermen of Alaska
(UFA) strongly objects to the exclusion of canned and smoked
salmon products from COOL labeling requirements, as doing so
dilutes the effectiveness of this law for consumers and producers
of seafood," said UFA Executive Director Mark Vinsel. -
More...
Saturday - October 02, 2004
Ketchikan: Judge
halts roadwork for timber sale - federal judge has halted
roadwork for a timber sale near Ketchikan while environmental
groups appeal their lawsuit challenging sales in the Tongass
National Forest. - Read
this ADN story...
Anchorage Daily News - Saturday
- October 02, 2004
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Northern Right Whale
in the Bering Sea
Photo courtesy NMFS
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Alaska: Scientists
Double Tally of Known Right Whales; Scientists Optimistic After
Sightings of Critically Endangered Whale - The National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service
announced Friday in Kodiak, Alaska, that they have located more
endangered right whales. Scientists on the NOAA Research Vessel
McArthur II nearly doubled the tally of known right whales in
the Bering Sea in two lucky days of whale research.
"We saw more right whales
in the Bering Sea than have been documented in the last five
years combined," said Robert Pitman, NOAA fisheries marine
scientist. "More importantly, we also saw three cow-and-calf
pairs. Not only is the population bigger than we thought, but
it may actually be growing." - More...
Saturday - October 02, 2004
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Bed of coral-like
rhodoliths
Photo courtesy Brenda Konar, UAF/SFOS.
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Alaska: Fumbling
Fingers Lead to Discovery of New Alaska Marine Habitat by
Doug Schneider - Scientific discoveries often come as a result
of detailed planning and thoughtful experiments. But sometimes
they happen by accident. That was the case this past summer when
scuba-diving scientists dropped in on an entirely new marine
habitat in waters off Alaska.
If not for a slippery strainer,
marine scientists Katrin Iken and Brenda Konar would have missed
making what has turned out to be an important discovery.
This past June, the University
of Alaska Fairbanks researchers, together with a team of graduate
students, were aboard a chartered fishing vessel in Alaska's
Prince William Sound. They were conducting a survey of the sound's
marine life as part of a global study of ocean biodiversity.
- More...
Saturday - October 02, 2004
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June Allen Column
 John
Koel, Baker to Banker; An eccentric philanthropist John Koel
was a well-known figure in Ketchikan from the day he arrived
in 1901 to the day he died in 1946. The eldest son of German
immigrants who settled in the Midwest, Koel was a 38-year-old
confirmed bachelor, a slight man with high cheekbones, a small
mustache and a tidy bankroll he had saved to finance his adventure
in Alaska. A baker by trade and already a canny businessman when
he alighted on the steamship dock, he quickly toured the new
city of Ketchikan and almost immediately opened the OK Bakery
on Dock Street, near the intersection with Main Street. - Read
the rest of this story by June Allen...
Tuesday - September 07, 2004
 Harold
Gillam: A Tragic Final Flight; Ketchikan remembers the search
Ketchikan's
'Fish House Tessie'; She was proud of the nickname
Fairbanks:
Golden Heart City; A story of its founding
Remembering
'Swede' Risland (1915-1991);The town's most memorable logger
Alaska's
Deepwater Highway; A part of Alaska history
Ketchikan's
American Legionnaires; Here's to 'the boys' of Post #3 -
Ketchikan's
Cruise Ship Industry; A light-hearted look at its origins
Ketchikan's
First City Players; Did you hear that applause?
A
biography of Alaska's herring: A little fish of huge importance...
Read more stories by June Allen...
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