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Coming up this week, the fleet is on two-hour notice for Sitka herring, the halibut quota for CDQ fisheries are down this year, an explosion aboard a factory trawler takes the life of one crewman, and going for geoduck. We had help from KYUK’s Ben Matheson in Bethel, KUCB’s Lauren Rosenthal in Unalaska, KDLG’s Mike Mason in Dillingham, KRBD’s Leila …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The public can attend and testify by teleconference at: 1-866-560-5984, passcode: 12960066. The Kodiak and Aleutian Federal Subsistence Advisory Council is meeting today and tomorrow here in Kodiak. According to Carl Johnson with the Office of Subsistence Management in Anchorage, the meeting this year will be on fisheries topics. “Right now, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak High School Bears basketball teams beginning state championship tournament play today. The Kodiak boys, seeded 8th, will face West Anchorage at 5:15 p.m., while the Lady Bears, the top-seeded and undefeated top-ranked team in the state, get the prime time game tonight at 8:45 against Dimond. You can watch the Bears during Alaska’s version of March …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Last night the Kodiak City Council and Borough Assembly met for a joint work session and discussed Gulf of Alaska trawl bycatch management at length. In April the North Pacific Fishery Management Council will take up the bycatch issue, and try to develop some sort of management plan to help reduce it within the trawl industry. On Monday, …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT It’s a fairly light agenda for the Kodiak Borough Assembly’s regular meeting tonight. First up is a series of proclamations, including Choose Respect and Women’s History Month. The assembly will also take a final look at its 2014 strategic plan and vote on whether or not to approve it. Also on tonight’s agenda is a resolution to approve …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT On Monday night roughly two dozen community members filled the borough assembly chambers for the Kodiak Fisheries Work Group meeting. It was a long night of testimony, panel discussion and guest presentations, as the work group considered what recommendations it might pass on to the city council and borough assembly for bycatch management in the Gulf of Alaska …

Jay Barrett/KMXT You can add another trophy to the mantle of Kodiak’s most famous runner. Trevor Dunbar’s Oregon Ducks won the NCAA indoor national track and field championship over the weekend. The University of Oregon senior placed in two events to help the Ducks clinch the title in Albuquerque, scoring 62 points, eight more than runner-up Arkansas. Dunbar was fifth …

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, Host Brianna Gibbs talks with Kodiak Island Brewing Company owner, Ben Millstein, and head brewer, Naga Reshi. The brewery recently released a "Tsunami IPA" in honor of the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake and Tsunami.