Tyler Kornelis speaks to members of the Kodiak Harvest Food Cooperative at annual meeting. (Photo by Kayla Desroches / KMXT) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Harvest Food Cooperative is trying to expand its business plan into selling seafood. The group formed in 2016, following a community gathering the year before which pinpointed a need for “a food co-op with [a] local …
Read More »City Council says Kodiak fishermen can sell seafood from their boats
Fishing boats moored in Kodiak. ( Photo by James Brookes/Flickr) Mitch Borden/KMXT At its regular meeting last night, the Kodiak city council passed an ordinance to allow local fishermen to sell seafood on Kodiak docks. Last year, the city was given a petition asking it to revise a city law that made it illegal for commercial fishermen to sell their …
Read More »Seafood Landings Up – But Value Down – in Many 2015 Alaska Fisheries
The National Marine Fisheries Service released its annual snapshot of the nation’s fisheries Wednesday morning. Among other things, it showed that Americans ate, on average, one more pound of seafood in 2015 than they did in 2014 – now up to 15-and-a-half pounds. Dutch Harbor is still the U.S. port with the most tonnage crossing the docks, with 787-million in …
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