Alaska News Nightly: Friday, June 30, 2023

A person holds up a sockeye salmon on the banks of the Kuskokwim River.
Programs staff with the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission use a dip net to harvest sockeye salmon on the Kuskokwim River near Bethel on June 28, 2023. (Terese Schomogyi / KRITFC)

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Friday on Alaska News Nightly:

Southeast Alaska troll fishermen will collect data to help researchers measure the impacts of climate change in the Gulf of Alaska. Plus, dip-netting grows in popularity on the Kuskokwim River.

Reports tonight from:

Wesley Early, Kavitha George and Jeremy Hsieh in Anchorage

Evan Erickson in Bethel

Tim Ellis in Delta Junction

Anna Canny in Juneau

Riley Board in Kenai

Desiree Hagen in Kotzebue

This episode of Alaska News Nightly is hosted by Wesley Early, with audio engineering from Chris Hyde and producing from Tim Rockey.

a portrait of a man outside

Tim Rockey is the producer of Alaska News Nightly and covers education for Alaska Public Media. Reach him at trockey@alaskapublic.org or 907-550-8487. Read more about Tim here.

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