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Sockeye salmon schooling in Hidden Lake. (Photo by USFWS/Katrina Mueller) Daysha Eaton/KMXT The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is closing sport and subsistence fishing on Kodiak’s Litnik or Afognak Lake and Buskin River drainages due to low escapement. The closure begins Saturday. ADF&G closed sport and subsistence sockeye salmon fishing in the Afognak River and the Buskin River systems. “Right now …

Fishing boat going out to sea. (Photo: Gruscana/ Oscar’s Dock and Boats of Kodiak/flickr) Mitch Borden/KMXT A recent proposal to the Alaska Board of Fisheries asks it to limit the amount of salmon fisherman can catch in the Kodiak area. That’s according to Heather McCarty, the fisheries analyst for the City of Kodiak and the Kodiak Island Borough. At a …

Competitors stand at one station during the race and complete knots. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT A competition Saturday pitted fisherman against fisherman in a set of tasks which included knot-tying, hook-throwing, and survival suit-donning. The event created a fun spectacle on the last day of ComFish and demonstrated some of the skills even a greenhorn deckhand needs day to day. …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Whether you work in the seafood industry in Kodiak or not, odds are your presence here is partially due to commercial fishing – even if it’s in a service or supporting role. That statement is reinforced by figures compiled by the Kodiak Chamber of Commerce and published in its August newsletter. Lale Gurer is the economic development specialist …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The fishing vessel that partially sunk Sunday afternoon in the Shelikof Strait has gone to the bottom. A Coast Guard spokesman in Kodiak reports the Scandia went down in Uyak Bay about 1:47 Monday morning as it was being towed by the Good Samaritan vessel Hazel Lorraine. Petty Officer Johnathan Klingenberg said the Hazel Lorraine took the Scandia …

Held up by Sealife aquarist Jemma Battric, Claude weighs a mighty 15lbs and measures 15 inches wide – when he is fully grown he will weigh a whopping 30lbs and gain an extra three inches.Daily Mail photo Coming up this week, the trawlers in the Gulf will see a 15 percent reduction in allowable halibut bycatch; to err is human, …