Programs

  Bud Lather recalls seeing Shark Cove, his family’s Uganik setnet site, for the first time.

  Christy Allen speaks about growing up at Port O’Brien, the Uganik cannery at which her father was superintendent.

  Deedie Pearson describes fishing for and salting salmon in Uganik Bay in the 1940s.

Judge Roy Madsen tells the story of when his father trapped a live bear in Mush Bay in the 1930s.

  Pam and David Pingree of Quartz Creek Lodge in Uganik Bay speak about their first introduction to the west side and transitioning to being year-round bush residents.

  Beyond the Cover Feature: Local Kodiak Author Stacy Studebaker. Stacy has worked in the school district teaching Science for 20 years. She is a founding member of the Audobon Society, and won the 2011 Celia Hunter Award by the Alaska Conservation Foundation for a lifetime of conservation work. She founded Sense of Place Press and has published 3 books, …

Coming up this week, the Alaska Board of Fisheries says no thank you to stacking Bristol Bay permits, the only guy who seemed to know what was going on sometimes is retiring, and creating a new dog treat from what McDonald’s doesn’t put in its Fillet-o-Fish sandwiches, plus more, all coming up on the Alaska Fisheries Report. We had help …

On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks with the team behind the upcoming Fairwind Players radio theater performance, “The Mermaid of Hanin Rocks.” You’ll hear from writer Andy Ozols, director Pat Szabo, and Fairwind Players member Pam Foreman.

Coming up this week, sad news from the state’s capital where the newly elected mayor, Greg Fisk, a fisheries consultant, was found dead in his home Monday, the annual Yukon lamprey run is on, but don’t blink or you’ll miss it, and the fish board member from Dillingham won’t be allowed to participate in all the action at the Bristol …

Host Kayla Desroches talks with organizers of Kodiak Strong Planning Day, where community members will decide on one or two goals they can achieve for Kodiak in the next year.