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Coming up on this week’s show, a salmon processor in Ketchikan files for bankruptcy; they’re talking halibut in Vancouver, and sea ice is hampering the Bering Sea crab season. Plus why canned pinks are so popular, all on this week’s edition of the Alaska Fisheries Report. We had help from KSTK’s Tony Gorman in Wrangell, KFSK’s Matt Lichtenstein in Petersburg; …

Jay Barrett/KMXT On this week’s show, incidents in the fisheries take the life of a Bering Sea crabber, and left two men stranded on a remote island. Alaska’s newest senator gets assigned to the influential Commerce Committee; a new study compares the economic impact of sport and commercial fisheries; and life as a Deadliest Catch camera operator. All that and …

This week on Talk of The Rock, host Mike Murray discusses Russian Christmas, Starring and Russian New Years traditions with Neal Sargent, Iver Malutin and Sven Haakanson.

This week on Talk of The Rock, host Mike Murray discusses Russian Christmas, Starring and Russian New Years traditions with Neal Sargent, Iver Malutin and Sven Haakanson.

On this first show of 2009, we glance back at the year that was, and look forward to what might be in the new year. Also, cod prices are plummeting and a fisherman in Japan builds the Prius of the Sea. All that and more coming up on the Alaska Fisheries Report.

Coming up on this week’s show: NOAA’s new head is an ardent conservationist who’s criticized the agency in the past for not doing enough to curb what she sees as over-fishing; The City of Kenai is setting up a task force to protect its fisheries; And you can now renew your fishing permits online. All that and more, coming up …

On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report: The North Pacific Fishery Management Council wrapped up its meeting in Anchorage this week, and as expected, cut nearly 20 percent from the pollock fishery next year. The council decided to do some more thinking about other issues, including processor quotas and crew shares in the Bering Sea crab fishery, latent licenses and sector …

This week on KMXT’s Talk of the Rock, host Jay Barrett talks with the commander of Alaska’s military forces, General Dana Atkins.

On the Alaska Fisheries Report this week: Federal agents raid Ocean Beauty Seafoods headquarters in Seattle and plants elsewhere; North Pacific Fishery Management Council has a lot on its agenda at its meeting in Anchorage; And fishermen have started getting their Exxon Valdez Oil Spill checks. All that and more, coming up on this week’s edition of The Alaska Fisheries …

This week on Talk of The Rock, host Mike Murray talks with Executive Director Toby Sullivan about upcoming events with the Kodiak Maritime History Museu.