Classic Cars (Photo by Kayla Desroches/KMXT) Daysha Eaton/KMXT A group of classic car buffs have been visiting Kodiak this week in their historic vehicles. Jim Fredenhagen from Anchorage is among them. He owns a blue 1929 Model A Ford, which he explains has a very special horn. “Believe it or not, moose hate that horn. They take off when they hear that …

Rock Fish. (Photo by Daysha Eaton/KMXT) By Daysha Eaton/KMXT Since last week, processors have been waiting to find out whether secondary processing of Alaska fish will be subject to a new 25 percent tariff, which China announced Friday in retaliation to American tariffs on Chinese goods. The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute says, as far as they can tell, the answer …

The Coast Guard is updating their water infrastructure at Base Kodiak, according to a facebook post on Monday, June 18. While staff upgrades the base drinking water system, some areas will experience water outages and boil water notices from June 25-27, according to the post and confirmed with Coast Guard officials. The impacts will vary based upon location. Information about the …

(Photo by Melody Ayres-Griffiths/Flickr) Daysha Eaton/KMXT Last year was not a good year for berries on Kodiak Island, to put it mildly. Low berry production was a bummer for human berry pickers. But the bad berry year also affected wildlife, including the island’s iconic brown bears that rely on the fruit to put on fat to survive the winter.   …

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 …

(Photo by Daysha Eaton/KMXT) Daysha Eaton/KMXT A delegation from China is scheduled to visit Kodiak Island in July. The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute will host the group, which plans to tour fish processing plants in Kodiak and Larsen Bay. The delegation will be in the United States from July 8-14, making stops in Seattle and Anchorage, but the majority of …

(Photo Courtesy of NOAA) Daysha Eaton/KMXT Women are harassed and fear for their safety much more than men when they work as fishery observers. That’s according to a report that NOAA’s office of law enforcement officials presented about sexual harassment of observers to a meeting of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council in Kodiak this past week. The report shared …

(Photo by Ingrid Taylar / Flickr) Daysha Eaton/KMXT Kodiak’s commercial salmon season opened over the weekend. James Jackson, the Kodiak Commercial Salmon and Herring Area Management Biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, says that on Friday the fish started moving at Karluk. “We had one day of 44,000 followed by several twentys and, basically, in four days, …

Daysha Eaton/KMXT The Coast Guard Base in Kodiak plans to add more than 100 service members over the next six years. And they have already started arriving. That’s according to Raymond Reichl, Chief of External affairs for Coast Guard District 17.  He says the extra coast guardsmen are needed to operate and maintain more technologically advanced vessels and aircraft arriving …

(Photo by Marvina Munch / USFWS) Daysha Eaton/KMXT Kodiak’s salmon season is off to a slow start. Until Wednesday, very few fish were counted in weirs. That’s according to James Jackson, the Kodiak Commercial Salmon and Herring Area Management Biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. “Earlier indicators are that things are a little late, and we had …