After a final air search in the Togiak/Akiak area comprised of searchers from US Fish and Wildlife, Army National Guard, and AWT pilots on Thursday, the search for 69-year-old snow machine Albert Kvamme was suspended troopers report. Kvamme, of Togiak departed Akiak destined for Togiak on April 11th, and searchers believe he never got […]
Icicle Seafoods plans to use a floating processor, the Gordon Jensen, to process in the Togiak herring fishery, which is expected to open around the first of May with an 80-million pound quota. Chris Pugmire, Icicle’s general manager of operations for Western Alaska, told public radio station KDLG in Dillingham, Alaska, that the vessel will […]
An intoxicated Twin Hills man was arrested on multiple charges after a domestic violence incident in that southwest community on Saturday morning Togiak-based troopers reported on Wednesday. Troopers in Togiak were alerted of an assault with injuries at 11:05 am on Saturday and responded to the village. Upon their arrival, their investigation showed that […]
State of Alaska biologists are forecasting a 2020 Togiak sac roe herring harvest of 38,749 tons in purse seine and gillnet sac roe fisheries. The purse seine allocation is set to 30,999 tons, or 80 percent while he gillnet allocation is 7,750 tons, or 20 percent. Biologists noted that the 2020 forecast uses a 20 […]