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William Dean Overstreet

...1962, he won the Golden North Salmon Derby with the smallest fish that had won at that time. He took a lot of kidding about his small fish to which he replied, "I caught just the size of fish...

http://www.legacy.com/Link.asp?I=LS000164901079
On the Trails: Winter to spring

...marine predators were busy. Tightly packed squads of Steller sea lions splashed and dove in unison, chasing some kind of small fish, or rafted up to rest in between foraging forays. A rocky reef was lined with bald eagles, with harbor seals scattered...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2013-05-03/trails-winter-spring
Outdoors
Calif. man gets 42 months for funding drug couriers

...Wednesday's hearing, Pinkston's attorney Steven Wells said his client had no criminal history, and he was just a "small fish caught up in a large net."When given the opportunity to address the court, Pinkston apologized the state of Alaska...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-12-13/calif-man-gets-42-months-funding-drug-c
Local
Everyone needs some skin in the game to keep halibut stocks sustainable

...bycatch in the Gulf annually. That is an astounding allotment of fish to waste! And so many of those discarded are small fish that haven't had the opportunity to spawn. This is flabbergasting to me. The bycatch is divided as follows: 2,000...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-05-30/everyone-needs-some-skin-game-keep-ha
Opinion
Restoring - and rerouting - the Sitkoh River

...short-term impact for a long-term benefit, we want to minimize that impact as much as possible and save as many of these small fish as we can." The best place to trap the juvenile fish was in deeper pools, Ray Friedlander said. "There were some...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-06-17/restoring-and-rerouting-sitkoh-river
Local
Wildlife spy: Mysteries of the deep: Do you know where your halibut has been?

...like a cork in a bottle. Halibut start out life dining on plankton. As they grow, they add creatures to their diet, small fish or the shrimp-like krill whales enjoy, expanding the menu to include shrimp, cod, sculpins, rockfish, turbot...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2012-08-24/wildlife-spy-mysteries-deep-do-you-k
Outdoors
On the Trails: Exploring Windfall Lake

...female yellowthroat (I think) gleaned bugs from shoreline vegetation. An eagle swooped low over the water, caught a small fish, and flew up into the forest. Shortly thereafter, the persistent screaming coming from that area stopped short, so...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2012-09-14/trails-exploring-windfall-lake
Outdoors
The abridged Overstreet, Part II

...than his? And he won first prize. Sometimes he leaves that out.""When I won it, the big joke was it was the smallest fish that had ever won the derby. It was 29 lbs. 2 oz. But it was a new car, so I could handle all the ribbing along...

http://juneauempire.com/neighbors/2012-10-07
Neighbors
Group: Charter halibut harvest within allocation in Southeast Alaska for 1st time in 7 years

...best option, most favored by operators as being less onerous moving forward, would be to emphasize catching mostly smaller fish while still allowing an opportunity to catch a larger fish. That way, he said, clients could still have a chance...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2011-11-08/group-charter-halibut-harvest-within-al
State
In the stacks: New science books

...her: parrotfish chip away at the hard limestone skeletons of corals to eat the polyps inside, and moray eels hunt smaller fish in the crevices of coral cities while sea turtles swim overhead. At the end of the story, the now drenched reader stands...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2012-02-23/stacks-new-science-books
Art

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