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Coming up this week, more on the truncated and disappointing Sitka Sound Sac Roe Herring season, Senator Begich is pushing a replacement program in case the J-1 Student Worker Visa Program is ended, and Alaska Seafood exports were way up last year. All that, plus don’t count on the Pile Bay Road this spring, and at least the Legislature passed …

Coming up this week, the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery ended suddenly on Thursday – we’ll tell you why; Fishermen on 58-foot boats are not the only ones visiting Sitka for this fishery; There’s a new way to pay for a hatchery’s operations in Southeast, and ComFish Alaska is going on right now in Kodiak. We had help from …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Today’s guests are Kate Wynne who is a marine mammal specialist at the Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center and Stacey Studebaker, the project coordinator for the Kodiak Gray Whale Project. We’ll be talking about Whale Fest and more. Here’s a short video of Stacey’s experience petting gray whales in Mexico. {youtube}UTT1igD7nsg{/youtube}

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Today’s guests are Kate Wynne who is a marine mammal specialist at the Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center and Stacey Studebaker, the project coordinator for the Kodiak Gray Whale Project. We’ll be talking about Whale Fest and more. Here’s a short video of Stacey’s experience petting gray whales in Mexico. {youtube}UTT1igD7nsg{/youtube}

Coming up this week: As the pollock A season wraps up, villagers call for a crackdown on the trawl fleet because it’s intercepting too many of their salmon, Obama’s National Oceans Policy is criticized at a panel in Anchorage and fishermen want more information on ocean ccidification. We had help from KUCB’s Alexandra Gutierrez in Unalaska, APRN’s Steve Heimel and …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Coming up this week: Fish and Game reduces limits for two popular sportsfishing rivers in Kodiak, a Southeast village corporation is seeking a federal takeover of the Chatham Strait fisheries and the Sitka Tribe protests a dramatic increase of the Sitka sac roe herring guideline harvest level. All that and more golden king crab to go around. We …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Today’s guest is President and CEO of Koniag Incorporated Will Anderson. Anderson discusses everything from land use and 8 (a)contracting to Koniag’s business endeavors and strategy to engage non-shareholder descendants.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Today’s guest is President and CEO of Koniag Incorporated Will Anderson. Anderson discusses everything from land use and 8 (a)contracting to Koniag’s business endeavors and strategy to engage non-shareholder descendants.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Coming up this week: The feds are taking a closer look at seafood fraud, the state will start monitoring personally-harvested bivalves for PSP, the Department of Labor declares fishing as the deadliest way to make a living in Alaska and the Senate is looking at a resolution to get more young folks into the industry. All that and …

Coming up this week, Arne Fuglvog will spend less than a six months in prison for his fishing crimes; Southeast Native groups support trimming the sea otter population, but are concerned about some of a plan’s ramifications; and the start dates for two crab fisheries will remain flexible. All that and should seats on the North Pacific Council be dedicated …