January 21, 2022 – News

SPIFy Journal – documenting progress

This online journal will document the progress of SSSC’s new facility as we begin construction before we get started SSSC would like to say Thank You to the Rasmuson Foundation and the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust for their…

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January 10, 2022 – News, Facility

Tackling the Deep Freeze at the Sheldon Jackson Hatchery.

The Indian River intake needed extra attention during last week’s frigid temperatures. With these frigid temperatures last week here in Sitka, the hatchery has been working hard to maintain the systems. The incoming freshwater temperatures from Indian River dropped down…

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January 6, 2022 – Research

Hinged on Success- SSSC’s Crab Pot Project

Trap loss is a common occurrence across crustacean fisheries that often results in lost gear that continues to capture and kill both targeted and bycatch species. In Southeast Alaska alone, the annual entrapment of Dungeness crabs in derelict traps was…

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January 3, 2022 – News

TAG! You’re it!

The Hatchery Crew have been working for the past couple of weeks to tag at least 10% of our juvenile coho spawned back in 2020. Tagging is the process of inserting a coded wire tag into the nose of the…

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