Tag Archives: Talk of the Rock

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, KMXT features a lecture from Kodiak’s commercial trade show, ComFish. Mike Litzow with the University of Alaska talks about the Alaska marine heat wave and the effect of global warming on fish in Alaska waters.

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches talks with guests about the Alutiiq Museum’s new graphic arts book, “Igaruacirpet-Our Way of Making Design,” and Kodiak’s commercial fisheries trade show, ComFish.

On today’s Talk of the Rock, we chat about the recent tanner crab opening with Nat Nichols from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. He’ll give a retrospective on the tanner crab fishery, which opened this year for the first time in Kodiak since 2013.

On today’s Talk of the Rock, KMXT delves more into this morning’s tsunami warning with Dan Belanger, Earthquake & Tsunami Program Manager with the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. He explains why this earthquake didn’t cause a tsunami and talks about the new Kodiak area tsunami inundation maps, which were released last year.

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches chats about genealogical research with library director Katie Baxter and the Kodiak Public Library Association’s Laurie Madsen. This month, the library will provide a number of resources to help residents research their ancestry.

Pick Click give allows Alaskans to donate their permanent fund dividends to the charitable organizations of their choice. On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches chats with Pick Click Give program manager Sofia Fouquet, Monte Hawver from the Brother Francis Shelter, Laurie Madsen with the Kodiak Public Library Association, and Beth Davis with the Kodiak Women’s Resource & …

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, you’ll hear about the Pacific cod decline, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council’s decision to reduce the quota, and the possible effects on the Kodiak community. Host Kayla Desroches talks with fisheries analyst Heather McCarty about that and the city and borough’s letter seeking a disaster declaration for the fishery in the Gulf …

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks with McDowell Group senior seafood analyst Andy Wink about a recent economic report on Alaska sockeye salmon.

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks with representatives and a student from AKTEACH. They touch on the services the organization offers to the community, including home school and tutoring.  

On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks with the director and cast of the 1960s comedy play, “It Happens Every Summer.”