Chignik News

The Alaska Board of Fisheries is meeting this week in Anchorage to take on Bristol Bay issues, including some that have stirred controversy.

Kodiak and Alaska Peninsula crabbers got some good news last week -- bigger catch quotas for bairdi Tanner crab, a mid-January fishery important to local economies.

Juneau School Board member Phyllis Carlson will be the state's first director of rural education, Gov.

After the summer salmon season wraps up, Alaska's fishing industry begins a big line up of fall fisheries that can last through the winter.

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council kicks off the winter meeting season today with a gathering in Anchorage that runs through Oct.

Date: Sept. 28, 2009 Contact: Ens. Allie Ferko Phone: 271-1955 Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis 487-5700 Coast Guard monitoring removal of fuel from grounded Unimak Editors note: Please click on the image above for high resolution.

Three people have been picked up by a Good Samaritan vessel after their ship went aground.Kodiak radio station KMXT reports the 83-foot Unimak is on the rocks near Chignik, on the Alaska Peninsula 200 miles southwest of Kodiak Island.

Two very different personal experiences with the Alaska public school system have affected Phyllis Carlson's approach to education.