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The Weekender: What's happening in Homer this weekend?

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

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Cruising into summer

A Holland America cruise ship docked in Homer on Monday, carrying more than 1,000 passengers into town to kick off the summer tourist season.

NANA stumps against water initiative

• ‘Voices of Reason’ launches campaign to talk about Red Dog’s record
NANA Regional Corp., officials have recently been making the rounds on the Kenai Peninsula to discuss two mining initiatives likely to share space on the Aug. 26 ballot.
One Clean Water Initiative is already approved for the ballot. The other is currently on appeal before the Alaska Supreme Court, with a decision that could be issued by summer.

ADF&G opens Tanner crab fishing

• Non-commercial harvest opens July 15 for subsistence, personal-use and sportfishing
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced in April that it will open Kachemak Bay to non-commercial tanner crab fishing on July 15, 2008. Subsistence, personal-use and sport fisheries for Tanner crab will open in the waters of Kachemak Bay, east of a line between Anchor Point and Point Pogibshi. Department surveys estimate the abundance of legal sized male Tanner crab has met the minimum criteria for opening the fishery under the management plan adopted by the Alaska Board of Fisheries in 2002.

Give your mom a mess o’ hooligan

Anyone looking for a really special Mother’s Day gift might consider a hooligan — or better yet, a whole mess of them. Even better yet, take Mom fishing on the Kenai River and help her net her own mess. Of course, it might help if she likes being wet, cold and muddy and heading and gutting dozens of slippery little fish before eating them crispy fried in butter and topped with fresh chives. Either way, it’s guaranteed to be a more memorable gift than the conventional buffet dinners most moms will be treated to their special day.

IN THE WEEKENDER

2008 Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival

Calendar of Events

Thursday - High Tide 5:57 p.m.

Festival Registration: 9 a.m.–6 p.m. Homer Chamber of Commerce

Cold Duck Time 8-11a.m. Harbor, top of Ramp 2, MW. Dress warmly. $60pp.

Seabird Sidetrip 9 am-noon. Harbor, bottom of Ramp 3, to the right, M/V Torega. Join local bird expert Karl Stoltzfus as he shares his favorite birding places during a 3-hour cruise of upper Kachemak Bay. $55pp.

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