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Alexandra Gutierrez and Stephanie Joyce/KUCB A federal judge has upheld the National Marine Fisheries Service’s decision to restrict fishing in the western Aleutians in order to protect an endangered stock of marine mammals. The decision is the product of a year-long litigation process in which the State of Alaska, industry groups, and Aleut Enterprise sued NMFS over their efforts to …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Efforts to deal with debris from last year’s Japanese tsunami are moving forward. Dave Gaudet is the marine debris program coordinator for the Marine Conservation Alliance Foundation. He says that politicians and policy-makers are finally starting to address the issue.

Coming up this week, no more MSC certification for Alaska salmon after this year; the Board of Fish is meeting right now in Petersburg; and more weather causing fishermen concern. We had help from KUCB’s Stephanie Joyce in Unalaska, KFSK’s Joe Viechnicki in Petersburg and KCAW’s Ed Ronco in Sitka.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Kodiak Island Brewery will debut its newest creation this weekend in Anchorage at the Beer and Barley Wine Festival. Midnight Sunshine is a collaboration between the brewery’s Ben Millstein and Ben Johnson from the Midnight Sun Brewery in Anchorage. Millstein says the beer is inspired by a local favorite.

Jay Barrett/KMXT Seventy-five percent of Alaska’s salmon packers have decided to pull out of the Marine Stewardship Council’s fisheries certification program when the current agreement expires at the end of October. Those processors are Trident, Icicle, Ocean Beauty, Peter Pan, Alaska General, E-and-E, Kwikpak and North Pacific. The board of the Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation concurred with the move on …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT On today’s show, Zoya Saltonstall from A Balanced Approach and Belinda Chambers, a registered dietitian at Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center, join us to talk about taking care of your body with good old fashioned excercise and nutrition. If you made a resolution to get healthy in 2012, this show is for you.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT On today’s show, Zoya Saltonstall from A Balanced Approach and Belinda Chambers, a registered dietitian at Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center, join us to talk about taking care of your body with good old fashioned excercise and nutrition. If you made a resolution to get healthy in 2012, this show is for you.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team Program, or COASST, was inspired by the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Dr. Julia Parrish came to Alaska when the disaster happened and realized that without a baseline, it was hard to scientifically determine how much damage the spill had done to wildlife populations. She went back to Washington and ten years …