Petersburg

One is near Ketchikan.

The other two are closer to Petersburg.

She says her ultimate hope is to find the next Greens Creek.

Steve Mattersman, a former Alaska state geologist, wasn't on the panel, but he says that idea holds water.

So anyway, it was interesting for me and Don because we kinda had this wonder, do we go to Ketchikan for expensive fuel and to be with a group, which would be a, there's always an advantage to having a group, 'cause you're either helping them or they're helping you, so it's a good thing.

But Petersburg has cheap fuel.

$3 a gallon cheaper.

Yeah, like significant.

But again, as a Democrat, his party believes we shouldn't do it.

Well, he's got a fisheries background because he grew up in Petersburg.

I don't know if I'd call him a fish guy.

I'd call him more of an AI guy.

And so, you know, I run the Blaine Harbor as well, and we've helped projects in Sumas and different places in the county.

And how about you? Yeah, so I guess, you know, I was born in Petersburg, Alaska, grew up in Olympia area, and then when I was 18, started commercial fishing in Alaska, paid for college, and then when I graduated college, bought a boat and ran boats up there for 10 years, and then moved down to the county here four years ago.

And I guess my first job actually was working for Mayberry Harvest even.

Oh, really? Good.

Scandinavian, I see.

Yeah, exactly.

And I was born in Petersburg, which is known as Little Norway, so lots of Scandinavians up there.

My grandfather grew up in Ballard there.

He said, hey, commercial fishing's it, and we're going to rebalance everything, and commercial's going to get more, and it's our lifeblood.

He's from Petersburg.

He's been steeped in commercial fishing.

He is, for a new age candidate, a guy that's looking out for the new time, to get past the dummy decline, all those nice things he's saying.

Hersey is a retired dive fisherman.

He co-founded the sea cucumber dive fishery in Petersburg in the 90s.

And when he first started diving in the late 80s, he caught abalone.

But that fishery doesn't exist anymore because of sea otters.

The main dive fisheries in Southeast are sea cucumber and geoduck clams.

There are about 200 active dive fishermen in the region, and last season, the fisheries brought in almost $7 million combined.

Yuchi says small boat fisheries mean a lot to a town like Petersburg.

There are small business owners.

A group with national Republican ties alleges U.S. Senate challenger Dan J. Sullivan coordinated with the 907 Initiative, resulting in excessive campaign contributions.

Americans for Public Trust filed its complaint Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission against the Petersburg candidate and the 907 Initiative.

That's a progressive group spending heavily on ads that portray the incumbent Republican senator, also named Dan Sullivan, in a bad light.

The complaint dreads some of the same ground as Sullivan and his supporters have covered in prior complaints, specifically that Anchorage political consultant Amber Lee worked as a consultant for the Petersburg candidate and also worked for Democrats.

Like all FEC complaints, it won't be resolved anytime soon.

The Federal Commission is down to two members.

But unlike most cryptids, they have the additional skill of being able to read the minds of their targets and appear in a form that echoes the victim's biggest fears.

Back in 2007, Diana Lynn Tucker, her husband, and some friends were taking a boat excursion from Ketchikan to Juneau when they decided to dock in Frederick Sound at a dock just opposite of Petersburg.

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Diana's boat party rolls on up to the shore less than 15 miles from where that nightmare took place.

Diana bends down to grab her camera, accidentally hits the shutter release, and takes off running back to Betsy.

Betsy sees Diana running at her, all freaked out, with blood all over her arms, and she's like, what's wrong? Did you fall or something? Diana just tells her, we need to get out of here.

They hurry back to the boat, and Diana convinces everyone that they should have lunch across the Sound in Petersburg.

Once they get there and get settled in for lunch, Diana looks at her camera and the picture she accidentally took as she was leaving the forest.