Programs

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, host Jared Griffin speaks with Mallory Arnold, project manager for the Kodiak Economic Development Corporation, and Cooper Curtis of Highmark Marine about this month’s Career Expo and Job Fair, workforce development in Kodiak, and other projects. Listen here:

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Kodiak’s tanner crab fleet goes fishing, story by KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth, KCAW’s Robert Woolsey reports on the lawsuit that would halt king salmon trolling, and Izzy Ross of KDLG tells of the governor’s vow to fight the Pebble veto. Pebble Mine site.  

Nate Svoboda and Bill Dunker from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s Kodiak office stop by the station to discuss what Kodiak bears are up to in the middle of winter, bear education programs for school kids, and this summer’s busy bear season in town.  

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Oceana’s Jon Warrenchuk makes a case for a freezing the footprint of bottom trawling in the Gulf of Alaska, plus KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth with a tanner crab stand down update. Alberto Lindner/NOAA  

Talk of the Rock host Jared Griffin sits down with Kodiak Harbormaster Dave Johnson to discuss the Ports and Harbor Advisory Board, the waterfront masterplan, and how funding Kodiak’s ports could poise the community to accommodate increased Arctic traffic. Listen here:

Talk of the Rock host Jared Griffin speaks with Kodiak History Museum curator Lynn Walker and operations manager Myra Sholze about the museum’s temporary exhibit program, call for artists, and more. Listen:

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Maggie Nelson of KUCB reports on the Unalaska cod strike, and KCAW’s Katherine Rose on the lawsuit that threatens to shut down Southeast chinook trolling. A large male killer whale in the Fraser River, where southern resident whales are now endangered. Photograph: jonmccormackphoto/Getty Images  

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The North Pacific Fishery Management Council puzzles over how to comply with a court’s order to actively manage the offshore Cook Inlet driftnet fishery.

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, host Jared Griffin and co-host Kirsten Dobroth, KMXT news director, sit down with Kodiak’s state senator Gary Stevens and representative Louise Stutes to talk about the upcoming legislative session and what it could mean for Kodiak. Listen to the original broadcast here (edited for time and clarity):    

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: A look back at some of the top Alaska fish stories of 2022.   Kodiak Island