Editor note: The herring roe fishery in North America operates in "short" or US tons, a measure that is written in full every time it is used. Metric tons are ...

Every March in Sitka, herring signal the arrival of spring. The cultural importance of herring to Lingít people cannot be overstated: Alaska Native people have been harvesting herring eggs as a ...

Efforts to decolonize the herring roe harvest in Alaska highlight the contrast between tribal subsistence practices and the Department of Fish and Game’s management strategy. Once, you could plunge a ...

In Sitka, Alaska, for instance ... Occasionally on offer to Haida Gwaii patients, a nutritious stew with squash and herring roe on kelp. ‘Eating in our culture is creating memories and bonding ...

a measure that is written in full every time it is used The 2024 sac roe herring fishing season in the US state of Alaska kicked off on March 22 in Sitka with a guideline harvest level of 81,246 ...

Those calls covered me for most scenarios, yet I wanted to carry a few more calls and have better organization. Then Sitka released their Turkey Tool Belt. Praise be to the turkey gods, it was the ...

Today, their subsistence harvest accounts for less than 1 percent of the herring roe taken in Sitka. Japanese buyers have dominated the fishery here since their own herring population was ...

KETCHIKAN (KDN) — The state opened the Sitka Sound commercial herring sac roe fishery twice this weekend, providing the first sac roe harvests there since 2019. The first opening from 10:30 a.m. to ...

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska court upheld a lawsuit by a tribal organization against the state concerning the sac roe herring fishery and its protection as a subsistence resource.

SITKA — An Alaska court upheld a lawsuit by a tribal organization against the state concerning the sac roe herring fishery and its protection as a subsistence resource. Juneau Superior Court ...

The Sitka Sac Roe Herring Fishery likely won’t happen this year. That’s according to a statement released last week by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Weak markets and smaller-than ...