Sitka’s City-Borough Assembly Tuesday accepted Kodiak-based Highmark Marine’s proposal to run Sitka’s new marine haulout and boatyard.

The Sitka Assembly has invited a Kodiak-based company to run its new publicly-owned marine haulout – over the strenuous objections of many in the local fleet and marine services industry.

Seiners scooped up sets of maturing herring on Saturday and Sunday as the Alaska Department of Fish and Game opened this year’s commercial sac roe herring fishery in waters off the east shore of ...