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Jennifer Canfield/KMXT This week’s guest is Terry Haines. He’s on the Kodiak City Council and is involved with the Alaska Municipal League and the Crewman’s Association. He’s been active in the push to get the state to start collecting data on crewman. The information would be valuable to fishing communities, but the practicalities of gathering the data are, so far, …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The U.S. State Department program that allows foreign college students to come to America and work for the summer is in danger of going away suddenly, leaving seafood processing operations in Kodiak and elsewhere around Alaska in a lurch.

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 …