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logo 11/29/2024 7:40:11 AM     
After 33 years, Fish Radio's Laine Welch hangs up her mic 
By Isabelle Ross US Source: KDLG 670AM 1/8/2022
Isabelle Ross
If you listen to radio in Alaska, or if you’re involved in the fishing industry, you’ll probably recognize the voice of Laine Welch.

“When I came here, I had never even seen a salmon," she said. "My life was cod fish and haddock and lobsters.”

Welch served as host of Alaska Fish Radio for more than three decades, bringing news and perspectives on the fishing industry to listeners around the state.

Now, at age 72, she’s hanging up the mic.
 

“I have a lot of mixed feelings,” she said. “I really feel like the time is right. I mean, radio is my passion. And I think radio rules in Alaska, because of its remoteness. I have to admit that once I hit 70, I really got tired of the daily deadlines. But when I originally had decided to get out of everything, the writing and the radio, I really had some difficulty accepting that, because I still love what I do. I still learn something new every day.”

Welch came to Alaska in 1986 from Cape Cod, MA. She got a job producing the Alaska Fisheries Report at KMXT in Kodiak, where she learned the rhythms of commercial fisheries across the state.

 
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