Pink salmon. (Photo by Nicole Beaulac / Flickr) The Alaska Department of Fish and Game just released its first season summary for Kodiak area salmon fisheries. KMXT chatted with area management biologist James Jackson about the end of the season report.
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Sockeye running up the Kenai River to spawn. (Photo by Kentaro Yasui / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alaska Board of Fisheries has rejected an agenda change request that would have moved up the discussion of a Cook Inlet claim on sockeye salmon in the Kodiak management area. That’s according to Kodiak resident Duncan Fields, who was at the board’s work …
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Pink salmon. (Video still by Chris Newly) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The salmon season is winding down, and numbers show it was a good year. James Jackson, the Kodiak Commercial Salmon Area Management biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, says any year where fishermen harvest more than 30 million salmon is a good one, and the Kodiak area is …
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Kayla Desroches/KMXT The city may not be able to afford two new human resources employees and choose instead to stick with advertising for just one. The Kodiak City Council will work that out at a special meeting tonight. Back in December, the council voted to hire both a Human Resource Administrative Specialist and a Human Resource Manager to help with …
Read More »Kodiak salmon fishermen have delivered just about a quarter million fish so far in this young season, according to Fish and Game’s daily in-season harvest summary. With Sunday and Monday’s deliveries, the all-species catch stands at 248,737. Nearly 38,000 red salmon came over the rails on Sunday and another 13,000 on Monday, boosting the sockeye salmon total to over 176,000. …
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