The Division of Investments will be lowering their interest rate for the next quarter by as much as 2%.  If you have a loan at a higher interest rate of 8%, contact the Division of Investments to see if refinancing would be worthwhile.  The new interest rates will be: Commercial Fish  8.00%  CF Product Quality Improvement […]

Don’t forget to send in your testimony to the NPFMC by March 26th and make your plane and hotel reservations to go and testify.  If you need help writing testimony, call the SEAFA office at 586-6652.  SEAFA also has a price break on hotel rooms if you can go to Anchorage and testify.  Call us for the […]

The 2007 preliminary status of the enhanced allocation plan is that the gillnet gear group has been above their allocation range for the last four five-year rolling averages, prior to that they were within their range every rolling average but one where they were below, the troll fleet has been below their allocation range every year of rolling averages […]

Kate Golden a reporter at the Juneau Empire wrote an article on the Juneau Harbor system today (3/18/08).  In her article she published the costs for various harbours around Southeast Alaska for a 40 ft boat.  So how does your harbour stack up compared to the others.  The annual moorage fee for a 40-foot boat […]

Petersburg . . . The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced the following schedule for the commercial troll public meetings to be held in towns around Southeast Alaska: Town Date Location Time Petersburg Thursday, April 10 City Council Chambers 10:00 a.m.  Wrangell Thursday, April 10 Fire Hall 7:00 p.m.  Ketchikan Monday, April 14 Fish and Game […]

March 12, 2007, Juneau, Alaska – Governor Sarah Palin today announced her recommendations to the legislature for three vacancies on the Alaska Board of Fisheries.  Governor Palin is recommending the reappointment of John Jensen, of Petersburg, and Mel Morris, of Kodiak, and the appointment of William Brown, of Juneau, to the board.    “I am […]

The allocation catch sharing plan/interim plan will be discussed at the NPFMC meeting in April in Anchorage.  The agenda has halibut scheduled in the SSC (Science & Statistical Committee) for Tuesday April 1st, in the Advisory Panel on Thursday April 3rd and at the Council scheduled for 8 hours Saturday and Sunday April 5th & […]

On February 21st Dept of Fisheries and Ocean Canada (DFO) issued a fishery notice on the recreational halibut fishery. DFO delayed the start of the recreational fishery for one month while they picked a solution to reduce their recreational fishery from  a sport harvest in 2007 of 1.55 Mlbs to 1.08Mlbs in 2008. They reduced the […]

Petersburg…. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced today the following information concerning the 2008 Hobart Bay-Port Houghton (District 10) herring sac roe gillnet fishery: No herring were harvested in the Hobart Bay-Port Houghton winter food and bait fishery by the time it closed on February 28, 2008. By regulation, this means the 462-ton […]