Patrick Saltonstall/Alutiiq Museum
There’s a common rule of thumb that it’s safe to harvest and eat shellfish during months that have an “r” in their names: September through April. But on the Kodiak road system, researchers are finding that’s just not true.
The Midday Report - Statewide News and Local Events Update Every Weekday
Weekly Wrap
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KMXTIn this week's recap with Host Brian Venua, Old Harbor has water again, Kodiak's Chamber of Commerce held its annual awards dinner, the State of Alaska is looking into an agriculture cooperative and recently published its preliminary salmon numbers statewide, and the Alaska Groundfish Data Bank was raided by state troopers.
Talk of the Rock
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Signal crayfish, an invasive species, are showing signs of stress on the population. Biologists from the Sun'aq Tribe of Kodiak share updates on their efforts and guesses what's going on.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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Photo by Ginny Eckert/Alaska Sea Grant.This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Hunter Morrison gives an update on invasive European green crabs from the studio of KRBD, fishing job numbers are down again, according to KUCB's Theo Greenly, and a wayward fishing vessel was captured in Petersburg, story from Olivia Rose of KFSK.
Alaska News
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- University of Alaska President Pat Pitney to retire in May
- Alaska troopers seize Kodiak trawl group’s electronics in bycatch probe
- An increase in Anchorage wolf encounters sparks curiosity, not alarm
- Alaska has a higher share of veterans than any other state
- Anchorage state Sen. Matt Claman is second Democrat in Alaska governor’s race
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