KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard assisted a mariner aboard the 43-foot fishing vessel Stardust, which was taking on water southeast of Japonski Island in Sitka, Wednesday evening. A Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Team 38-foot Training Boat Special Purpose Craft crew and a Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew along with a […]
The Sitka Tribe of Alaska (STA) is alarmed but not surprised at the recent press release by Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) that the Sitka Sound herring stock biomass is in sharp decline. The projected biomass of 44,237 tons is a 50 percent reduction from the 2013 post season biomass estimate and a […]
KODIAK, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew safely medevaced an injured hunter off Mount Verstovia, a few miles east of Sitka Friday. The Jayhawk crew transported the man to Air Station Sitka where he was transferred to awaiting emergency medical services for further medical attention. Coast Guard 17th District command […]
After a two-day search for the man in a 16-foot skiff, Gus McConnell, who went missing while following a larger boat to the community of Hoonah on Thursday, the search ended successfully. McConnell went missing after the larger vessel reported that they had lost sight of McConnell, who was unfamiliar with the territory. The Coast […]