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Stephanie Joyce/KUCB There won’t be an Atka mackerel or Pacific cod fishery in the western Aleutians until at least 2015. U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Burgess ruled today (Monday) that the National Marine Fisheries Service would have 23 months to assess the impact of its Steller sea lion protection measures in the region. The agency shut down the Atka mackerel …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Executive Director of the Alutiiq Museum Sven Haakanson, Susie Malutin and Alfred Naumoff are traveling to Boston this week to visit an Alutiiq warrior kayak housed at the Peabody Museum at Harvard. The trip is another step in a decade-long process to restore the kayak and bring it back to Kodiak. Haakanson says the purpose of this trip …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Three fishermen aboard the 32-foot fishing vessel Cyclone were rescued about 20 miles southeast of Kodiak on Friday. Around 7:15 a.m. a member of the crew radioed the Coast Guard to report that the boat was sinking. The Coast Guard was able to broadcast to mariners in the area and the good Samaritan vessel Glacier responded. The men …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Lockheed Martin has chosen the Kodiak Launch Complex for West coast launches of its proposed Athena III rocket. Today’s announcement comes as lawmakers in Juneau are debating the merits of funding Alaska Aerospace, which operates the Kodiak launch facility.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly got an earful at their regular meeting last night about being more communicative with the Service Area 1 board. Chairman Scott Arndt says the assembly and borough staff failed to discuss or notify them of a charge of over $62,000 to their account. A paving project in Woodland Acres was completed in 2010 …

Jay Barrett/KMXT There has been some movement in the State Legislature on House Bill 125, which seeks to move the Alcohol Beverage Control Board out of the Department of Public Safety and into the Department of Commerce, where all other licenses in the state are issued and regulated. The bill, which languished in the House Finance Committee last session, moved …

Coming up this week: the Board of Fisheries has decided to close some territory of the Sitka Sound Sac Roe Herring fishery; efforts continue to reduce chum salmon bycatch in the Bering Sea, Icicle buys SnoPac and ASMI’s boss updates the House Fisheries Committee. We had help this week from CoastAlaska’s Ed Schoenfeld in Ketchikan, KDLG’s Mike Mason in Dillingham, …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Kodiak’s new fisheries adviser gave his first report Tuesday night at the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly and Kodiak City Council joint meeting. KMXT’s Jennifer Canfield spoke with Denby Lloyd about some of the more pressing issues in Kodiak’s fisheries and the hour-long crash course that he gave to the assembly and council.