The King/Tanner Task Force Meeting will be held tomorrow, Thursday the 13th from 1:00pm-4:30pm. The meeting will be hosted at the ADF&G Southeast Regional office in Douglas and connected via web conferencing at the Tides Inn Conference Room, 307 1st Street in Petersburg. If you cannot make the meeting in person and would like to call in, please use 1-800-315-6338 with access code: 51977.
Category: Petersburg Events
Salmon Task Force and RPT Meetings in Petersburg
The Salmon Task Force meetings and Regional Planning Team (RPT) meetings will be held at the end of the month in Petersburg. The Regional Planning Team meetings address hatchery release permitting and the agenda is listed below. The meetings will be held in the Petersburg Borough Assembly Chambers at the following times: -Drift Gillnet Task Force meeting is scheduled for November 27, 2018, from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. -Purse Seine Task Force meeting is scheduled for November 28, 2018, from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. -Southeast RPT meeting is scheduled for November 29, 2018, from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. The RPT meeting Agenda Action items include: Northern Southeast Regional Planning Team (NSERPT) 1 – DIPAC permit alteration request (PAR) to increase the Read more…
Sea Otter Sewing Class in Petersburg
The Sealaska Heritage Institute is planning to offer a sea otter sewing class. The cost is $100, and in return, attendees will receive a sea otter pelt ($350 value) plus instruction on how to stretch and sew the hide into handicrafts which they get to keep. The class is scheduled to be from October 31 to November 3. Currently, there are 4 people registered for the Petersburg class. The maximum number of participants is 15, but if there are fewer than 10 students enrolled by Friday, Sealaska will cancel the class. Because of Federal regulation, participants will need to be at least 1/4 Alaska Native. This class will be an excellent opportunity to encourage the use of sea otters. If you would like to support more hunting and use of sea otter fur, please consider getting the word out. Here Read more…
Roadless Tongass Meeting in Petersburg
The Forest Service will be holding a public meeting in Petersburg on Tuesday, September 25 from 5:30-8pm in the Assembly Chambers to engage the public on developing an Alaska Roadless Rule to encourage Alaska’s economic development while conserving roadless areas. The flier is here.
Alaska Division of Economic Development visit Petersburg
Misty Smith with the Alaska Division of Economic Development (DED) will be in Petersburg from September 19-20 and available to talk with fishermen about their loan programs including new loans and extensions of current loans. She is available to meet at the Petersburg Borough Office and you can reach her by call or text at (907)723-2518. Her flier is here.
Petersburg Fishing Families Workshop
Marysia Szymkowiak from NOAA fisheries will be traveling to Petersburg to hold a work shop on September 17th from 5:30-7:30pm at the Scandia House Conference Room. The Alaska Fisheries Science Center is holding a workshop to discuss the interactions of fishing families and changing regulations, environments, and socioeconomic conditions in Alaska’s fisheries and fishing communities. This is an area of consideration for the North Pacific Fishery Management Council and other regulatory bodies and there is little information on it. All participants in Alaska’s fisheries are welcome. The flier for the event is here.
Platypus Marine BBQ
Platypus Marine will hold their annual ‘Captains and Crews BBQ’ in Petersburg on Wednesday, June 6th at 5pm at the SONs. The event will be catered by Liv and Heidi’s Kjokken & Kito’s Kave. Please view the flier here.