
Anna Laffrey
Staff Writer at Daily Northwestern
Reporter at Ketchikan Daily News
Articles
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1 week ago |
juneauempire.com | Anna Laffrey
Sitka residents are mounting a strong response to a draft provision of the U.S. Senate Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill that would mandate the sale of roughly 2 to 3 million acres of federal public lands in 11 western states, including Alaska.
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1 month ago |
ketchikandailynews.com | Anna Laffrey
Alaska’s commercial herring fisheries are under evaluation for a Responsible Fishery Management eco-certification that could boost sales and harvest from statewide herring fisheries. The state-run Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute commissioned the independent RFM certification study for all commercial herring fisheries that occur in the Southeast Alaska, Prince William Sound, Kodiak, Dutch Harbor and Togiak areas.
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1 month ago |
ketchikandailynews.com | Anna Laffrey
New rules for Alaska resident sport fishermen in the federal waters of the Exclusive Economic Zone were the subject of a public Alaska Department of Fish and Game “preseason meeting” Wednesday night in Centennial Hall. For the first time, residents who are sport fishing this year in the EEZ must follow all nonresident seasons, bag and possession limits, annual limits and size limits. The EEZ is the offshore, federal waters between three nautical miles and 200 nautical miles from shore.
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2 months ago |
juneauempire.com | Anna Laffrey
High schoolers from across Alaska reported to Sitka High School at 7:15 a.m. today for the second of a three-day conference of the Alaska Association of Student Governments.
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2 months ago |
savingseafood.org | Anna Laffrey
April 10, 2025 — The 2025 Southeast Alaska harvest limit for king salmon will be almost 40% less than last year, a drop of 60,000 fish. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game on April 1 announced an overall allocation of 130,800 treaty king salmon — fish that don’t originate in Alaska hatcheries — for all gear groups targeting kings in waters off Southeast Alaska and Yakutat.
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