This week we hear about the new parking policy at Kodiak's State Airport that takes effect on Feb. 1, Alaska Communications is teaming up with Old Harbor Native Corporation to provide fiber to communities on the east side of the island, the Kodiak Island spaceport (Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska) hopes to capitalize on a national "traffic jam" at spaceports in the Lower 48, the first of three new Coast Guard cutters arrived in Kodiak this week, Marine Exchange of Alaska is helping to fill gaps in the Coast Guard's VHF radio system coverage around Kodiak Island, and a special report from our freelance reporter at Kodiak High School about the culinary class finals this month.

On this week's Talk of the Rock, host Davis Hovey chats with Nick Mangini, who is heavily involved in kelp and mariculture across Southeast Alaska, about the industry’s growth around Kodiak Island over the course of 2024.

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:KCAW's Katherine Rose reports that the Sitka Fish and Game Advisory Committee is against herring fishing in Promisla Bay after all, The Aleut Community of St. Paul has signed a joint management agreement with the federal government, according to Theo Greenly of KUCB, and Davis Hovey tells of a sped-up fishery disaster system from the studios of KMXT.