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  Brianna Gibbs/KMXT             Kodiak’s Fisheries Work Group is calling on various fishing gear types, sectors and community members to take part in an upcoming. In October the North Pacific Fishery Management Council released a series of alternatives and options for Gulf of Alaska trawl bycatch management, and the work group, which is made up of city council and borough …

  *Keith Bruce/KMXT           After its first year open, Threshold Recycling Center’s new Recycle Haven is doing quite well. KMXT’s newest intern, Keith Bruce, has more:           Director Ken Reinke gave an update on the Recycle Haven to the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly during its regular meeting earlier this month.            He said they celebrated the haven’s …

  We have red and pink forecasts from opposite sides of the state; under-size crab and secret identities discovered in Unalaska, and some Fukushima radiation is detected for the first time on the West Coast. All that, and remembering a towing figure in Alaska seafood, coming up, on the Alaska Fisheries Report. We had help from KDLG’s Dave Bendinger in …

  Brianna Gibbs/KMXT             Earlier this month, KMXT told you about the Alutiiq Museum’s two-year skin sewing project, which culminated in a life-size, wearable parka. The parka has since been unveiled to the public, but it won’t be on display at the museum for a few weeks. That’s because it must first go through cold storage – a process all …

Jay Barrett/KMXT     One Kodiak man is dead and another under arrest after after a stabbing incident on Sunday.     Just before 3 p.m. the Kodiak Police Department received a 911 call about a stabbing at a residence on Ole Johnson Avenue. Upon arriving, according to the KPD, officers found 59-year-old Dennis Fathke on the floor and not …

The landing craft Polar Bear aground at the east end of Near Island on Monday. The day before it had gone aground near the west end of Near Island. Iver Holm photo  Jay Barrett/KMXT It was a rough couple of days for a landing craft in Kodiak Island waters. Sunday evening the 152-foot landing craft Polar Bear went aground on …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT            Last week, KMXT told you about the domestic shipping company, Horizon Lines, breaking up and merging with other companies.  Horizon will sell off its Alaska Routes, which include regular service between Tacoma, Anchorage, Unalaska and Kodiak, to Matson, Inc.             During Thursday’s City Council meeting, Councilman John Whiddon asked City Manager Aimee Kniaziowski if that merger will …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT            Two new large ramps are coming to the skate park at Baranof in the near future. During Thursday’s City Council meeting the council unanimously awarded the purchase and installment of two large ramps from the American Ramp Company.            City Manager Aimee Kniaziowski said the ramp company was the lone bidder for the skate park RFP and …