Plastic fish food bags litter the water between Sitka and Juneau
14-06-2025 02:54 via ktoo.org

Plastic fish food bags litter the water between Sitka and Juneau

Juneau resident Wayne Carnes holds one of the 54 fish food bags he found around Funter Bay. (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO)
A shipping container full of empty industrial-sized fish food bags fell off a barge heading from Baranof Island to the landfill in Petersburg. Dozens of the plastic bags have washed up near Juneau over the past week.
They came from the Hidden Falls Hatchery, owned by the Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association. 
Adam Olson, the operations manager at the aquacu
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