FIFTH OPENING – The Sitka seine boats Hukilau and Rose Lee pump herring aboard this afternoon at the end of Deep Inlet during the fifth opening in the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery. The opening was being held in two locations beginning at 11 a.m. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson) 

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September 13, 2018, Community Happenings

Unitarians Set

Sunday Meeting

“Why We Gather” will be the topic of Sunday’s program at the Sitka Unitarian Fellowship, a liberal spiritual community welcoming all persons.  

Four members will speak briefly about why they have chosen to belong to this community. Discussion of the coming year will follow. All are invited to learn more about the Fellowship.

Gathering begins at 10:30 a.m., with the program beginning at 10:45 a.m. Bread and soup follow at noon. The Fellowship Hall is at 408 Marine Street, with parking behind off Spruce Street.

 

ALFA Receives Grant For

Project on Sperm Whales

The Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association has been awarded a grant from the NOAA Bycatch Reduction and Engineering Program to develop a user-friendly tool that assists fishermen with detecting sperm whales to avoid depredation on longline gear.

The tool is a towed hydrophone array that can locate whales up to eight miles away and share this information between a network of fishermen. The project is an interdisciplinary collaboration of fishermen, NOAA fishery managers, university-based biologists, and hydrophone equipment developers.

The project builds on prior work conducted by the Southeast Alaska Sperm Whale Avoidance Network during a 2016 pilot study, applying data and experience gained during that pilot work to automate a real time whale depredation avoidance network in the eastern Gulf of Alaska. 

“ALFA’s goal is to provide fishermen with an effective means of detecting sperm whales before setting gear, to facilitate sharing this information with a network of fishermen, and assist the fleet with avoiding sperm whale depredation,” said Dan Falvey, ALFA research director. “With support from the NOAA Bycatch Reduction and Engineering Program, we hope to turn research oriented towed array hydrophone systems into a plug and play tool for the longline fleet.” 

The three-stage project will: use 2016 field data to improve automated detection/ localization functions, improve the user interface, incorporate automated real time sharing of whale detection data to allow avoidance, and upgrade existing SEASWAP hydrophone hardware; field test the upgraded software/hardware on commercial fishing vessels; and, incorporate the upgraded systems into ALFA’s whale avoidance network. 

“Sperm whale depredation on longline gear poses an economic challenge to fishermen and complicates stock assessment for fisheries managers,” said ALFA Executive Director Linda Behnken. “Fishermen need tools to avoid whale depredation and this support from NOAA’s BREP will allow us to create fishermen- and whale- friendly tools.”

For information call 747-3400.

 

ANB to Meet

Alaska Native Brotherhood Camp 1 will meet 5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 17, at the ANB Founders Hall. Persons interested in renting the hall, wanting to become a member or renew their dues are asked to attend. For information call George Chappell 907-500-4400. 

 

 

 

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March 2004

Matthew C. Hunter of Sitka recently returned from Cuba as part of a St. Olaf College International and Off-Campus Studies program. Hunter, a junior physics major at St. Olaf College, is the son of Robert and Kim Hunter of Sitka.


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March 1974

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