Business

Wires and War Games

Cook Inlet Fisheries Management Plan

Bycatch and Community Provisions in Bering Sea Trawl Catchshare Program?

Sablefish Bycatch in Bering Sea Pollock Fishery

Why the Kodiak Tanner Fishery Did Not Open

First there was one, and then there was another. And another.  That’s how it started here at KMXT, stories about the struggles of local businesses to survive the pandemic.  In the process, we discovered that more than just numbers are involved, but something more powerful — stories of courage, ingenuity, and determination to outsmart this virus. Take Diane Million. Her …

Businesses all over Kodiak have been hard at work, innovating a new vision of local commerce in a post-covid world. A stellar example of this trend is the local Islander Bookshop, which has shifted the entirety of its catalog online. “The process has taken much longer than I thought it would take,” Melissa Haffeman, owner of the Islander Bookshop said. …

COVID-19 has thrown the traditional rules of commerce out the window, so the Frame Shop is writing a new rule book. “We have experienced with this because we are a gallery and frame shop so I knew what was coming in the winter time,” Sarah Culbertson of the Kodiak Frame Shop said. “And we started planning this kind of curated …

Since COVID-19 first arrived in Kodiak, the Emergency Operations Center has worked hard to balance physical health and economic health in Kodiak. But as COVID has gotten out of control in the last two weeks, that balance has shifted in favor of physical health; the EOC has mandated mask-use in all public businesses, and limited occupancy to 25% of the …

“Big G Electric and Engineering” got its start more than 30 years ago in the Kenai Peninsula. Now it’s under the umbrella of Koniag, Inc., the Native corporation for Kodiak region. Koniag says Bruce Gabriel will remain president of “Big G,” and join the corporation’s leadership team. Bruce Gabriel, whose family founded Big G, says he will retain 20 percent …