On this week’s Talk of the Rock, Julie Matweyou with the Marine Advisory Program joins to talk about the upcoming Alaska Young Fishermen’s Summit. Also, Jared Griffin from Kodiak College talks about his upcoming two part series on race and “the other.”
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Julie Matweyou. Courtesy of Alaska Sea Grant Kayla Desroches/KMXT A program which focuses on seafood safety, sustainability, and marine coastal resources both in Alaska and the Lower 48 may lose its federal funding. President Donald Trump struck the program from his Fiscal Year 2018 proposed budget. Sea Grant has branches spread out across Alaska, including here in Kodiak. Julie Matweyou …
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On this week’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches talks with Alaska Sea Grant’s Julie Matweyou and the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association’s Bruce Wright about the development of a test kit to monitor for paralytic shellfish poisoning.
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Kayla Desroches/KMXT Researchers are developing a field test kit that would make it easier to monitor for paralytic shellfish poisoning. Project partners include NOAA researchers from the lower 48 as well as community testers based on Kodiak Island and in the Alaska Peninsula. Despite the high level of toxicity found in shellfish in the Kodiak Archipelago, people still harvest them. …
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