As warmer spring weather approaches, and the snow continues to build in the backcountry on Kodiak Island, conditions are prime for avalanches. This week the Alaska Avalanche School will be in Kodiak to provide classes for residents who want to be safe when recreating in avalanche areas. Chris Bruno, one of the instructors with the …

Kodiak Island, like many places in Alaska, has dozens of historic military installations in need of cleanup, known as Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS). There are 533 total in Alaska, 138 of them are in need of cleanup. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is in charge of the remediation of multiple sites across the …

Beaked whales are a rare sight and spend most of their lives deep in the ocean. But one was found dead on a beach near Kodiak last week. KMXT’s Brian Venua joined a small team of researchers to dissect and study the whale.

Trident Seafoods is requesting a temporary exception to the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) so it can replace its bunkhouse dock along the western shore of Near Island Channel, in downtown Kodiak. The company’s work could potentially disturb a population of approximately 460 northern sea otters in the area.

This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Theo Greenly’s extensive interview with Wesley Loy about the pollock TAC for KUCB, and Davis Hovey’s report on the end of the Kodiak Tanner crab season from KMXT. Factory Trawlers like the F/T Alaska Ocean, pictured here in Dutch Harbor in 2023, harvest Alaska …

Kodiak Island’s invasive crayfish population has reached levels that make it too difficult to completely eradicate. That’s according to a biologist running a program to remove signal crayfish from Buskin Lake. Daniel Smith is the biologist with the Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak. He says signal crayfish were first observed in the Buskin River more than …

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: It is a double dose of KYUK’s Evan Erickson as he reports on the early lives of chum salmon, and a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service. Plus Brian Venua on Trident’s Alaska divestiture. Chum salmon swimming upriver. (Stori Oates/NOAA Fisheries)

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The take of killer whales in Alaska fisheries is up, the Alaska Seafood Development Foundation has a new CEO, and a look at the emerging mariculture industry.

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KNBA’s Rhonda McBride talks to Mary Peltola about the federal lawsuit against the state, Shelby Herbert tells of an aquaculture class in Petersburg for KFSK, plus the philosophy of C Shares. PHS aquaculture students release salmon fry into City Creek, about two miles outside of …