Kayla Desroches/KMXT The North Pacific Fishery Management Council is meeting in Kodiak and took public comment on Gulf of Alaska trawl bycatch management through the weekend and Monday morning. Currently before the council are a few alternatives: alternative two, in which harvesters who qualify would be awarded shares of catch based on their historical participation, alternative three, which would allocate …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The North Pacific Fishery Management Council just passed an amendment to compensate for the exit of one processor from Tanner crab processing last year. John McCracken, an economist with the staff of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, stepped up on Friday during the Council meeting in Kodiak to talk about the amendment. He explained Icicle Seafood’s departure …

On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks about a plan for an industrial arts district with its project manager, Anjuli Grantham, and one of her partners, Kathy Drabek from the Shun’aq Tribe of Kodiak.

Painting of iris by Cathy Cordry Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alutiiq Museum will feature the work of two artists this coming year thanks to support from the Rasmuson Foundation. Both artists have connections to Kodiak and incorporate its natural resources into their paintings. Cathy Cordry is a Kodiak City resident and her series of paintings depicts Kodiak flowers and plants. Each …

North Pacific Fishery Management Council logo Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Scientific and Statistical Committee advises the North Pacific Fishery Management Council and met last week in Kodiak, at the same time as the Council and the Advisory Panel are also meeting in town. Friday, the SSC spoke with the council and defended its idea to start a social science team in …

Anjuli Grantham. Photo by Breanna Peterson Kayla  Desroches/KMXT Kodiak City is a finalist for a grant which would fund art and infrastructure downtown. Imagine walking through the area and seeing community murals and metal railings that double as art pieces. Historian and writer, Anjuli Grantham, is the driving force behind the project and says she was one of 80 finalists …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT It looks like the Kodiak City Council will pass the fiscal year 2017 budget as is, but at its regular meeting last night postponed final budget approval to its next regular meeting. City Manager Aimée Kniaziowski explained she recommends the postponement because city staff missed the required public posting notice deadline and wants to be on the safe …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak City Council discussed the Kodiak Island Borough’s return to the 1997 Uniform Building Code at its work session Tuesday night. The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly made the change in an attempt to relax engineering codes for home owner-builders constructing homes in the borough and to remove restrictions and decrease cost. Doug Mathers, city building official, spoke …

Free range chicken.RayMorris1 / Flickr Kayla Desroches/KMXT There’s no need to restrict reading groups to kids filling time during summer break. In Kodiak, adults can commune over a shared love of reading too – with a little bit of family-friendly literature thrown in and a bit of the deeper stuff also. Lisa Booch with the Kodiak Public Library will lead …

Advisory panel meeting on the observer program. Theresa Peterson sits on left. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT The North Pacific Fishery Management Council meets this week in Kodiak for one of its five annual meetings and there are a couple of advisory groups that also get together. One is called the Scientific and Statistical Committee and the other is called the …