Programs

Jay Barrett/KMXT Every year young people come to Alaska looking to make their fortune commercial fishing. However, many of them are woefully underprepared. Many can’t handle the conditions at sea or the long hours, or it’s just too tough for them. Today’s guest is former fishing boat captain Jonathan Allen. He’s seen good greenhorns and bad during his years in …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Every year young people come to Alaska looking to make their fortune commercial fishing. However, many of them are woefully underprepared. Many can’t handle the conditions at sea or the long hours, or it’s just too tough for them. Today’s guest is former fishing boat captain Jonathan Allen. He’s seen good greenhorns and bad during his years in …

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 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.

Coming up this week, some fishermen in Cordova may have lost their boats to the unnatural dump of snow there; a new factory long-liner will be built in-state, and the dilemma of bycatch. We had help this week from KRBD’s Deanna Garrison in Ketchikan and KDLG’s Mike Mason in Dillingham.

Coming up this week, ASMI changes its slogan in Japan AND looks to South America as a potential customer; IFQs were one of the topics of the recent Lowell Wakefield Fisheries Symposium, and a seasoned skipper writes a book of advice for greenhorns looking to break into Alaska fisheries. We had help this week from KFSK’s Joe Viechnicki in Petersburg …

Singers from St. Innocent’s Academy and Saint Herman Seminary sharing traditional Christmas songs in the KMXT studio Tuesday. Photo by Sven Haakanson Jennifer Canfield/KMXT On today’s show we’ll be discussing Russian Christmas and New Year, the history of the church in Kodiak and what it means to be a part of the church. Our guests today are Father Paisius and …

Singers from St. Innocent’s Academy and Saint Herman Seminary sharing traditional Christmas songs in the KMXT studio Tuesday. Photo by Sven Haakanson Jennifer Canfield/KMXT On today’s show we’ll be discussing Russian Christmas and New Year, the history of the church in Kodiak and what it means to be a part of the church. Our guests today are Father Paisius and …

Coming up this week: Gulf fixed gear fishermen get a surprise cod opening to end the year; it looks like there’ll be another herring fishery this spring in Behm Canal, and how sunlight makes spilled oil especially deadly to fish. We had help this year from: Rosemarie Alexander, Len Anderson, Tom Banse, Dan Bross, Jennifer Canfield, Libby Casey, Dave Donaldson, …