Programs

  Alaska’s first and most lucrative herring fishery at Sitka Sound is not likely to open for the second year in a row, and for only the second time in the fishery’s nearly 45-year history. Small fish and a weak market are to blame. Meanwhile, farther north, the Norton Sound winter crab fishery opened last weekend, but nobody showed up …

Our guests this week are from the “The Hasty Heart,” which is a play presented by the FairWind Players that premiers on Friday, March 6. The play tells the story of a group of injured military men from several different countries who are in a hospital recovering from injuries. “The Hasty Heart” plays in the Drama Pod on Friday, Saturday …

Listen as eight storytellers share stories around the theme “For Better or Worse” in a live performance recorded on February 14, 2020 at the Kodiak Harbor Convention Center. The show first aired on KMXT 100.1 FM on Sunday, February 23, 2020.

Listen as eight storytellers share stories around the theme “Storm Warning” in a live performance recorded on January 17, 2020 at the Kodiak Harbor Convention Center. The show first aired on KMXT 100.1 FM on Sunday, January 26, 2020.

Kodiak History Museum has an ongoing mission to archive and care for objects and stories that make up Kodiak’s rich past and present. Collections curator Margaret Greutert and executive director Sarah Harrington were guests on this week’s Talk of the Rock program to discuss the acquisition and archive process, and to talk about what’s new at the museum. Listen to …

  Gulf of Alaska Cod could soon lose its blue certified sustainable label, which has proven to be an incentive for consumers to purchase the fish. The reason’s got nothing to do with fishermen—blame it on climate change. Warming waters are depleting stocks and deplete stocks puts the fishery at risk. Also this week, the heart wrenching story of the …

This week’s “Talk of the Rock” program. Memories of Doctor Bob Johnson.   The photo of Dr. Bob as a young man referred early in the program is below.   Full, edited interview with Nancy Kemp and Ginny Shank     Dr. Bob was born on Christmas Day 1925. He moved to Kodiak in 1938 with his father Dr. A. …

  The Alaska Legislature is in session and working on the budget. Fisheries programs across the state are on the chopping block—this after last year’s major cuts to the commercial fisheries division. Kodiak’s Representative Louise Stutes hopes the legislature will fix a measure approved previously that requires some fishing boat owners to double register their vessels. The intent was to …

Our guest today is Bob Tucker who is organizing a group of concerned citizens to attend the Feb. 6 Borough Assembly meeting to speak up about the need for better enforcement of garbage laws and for bear awareness for locals.   Bear Aware on Facebook has information on meeting time and date/   Bob Tucker wants to see better bear …

  Both sides of the Sitka Sound herring lawsuit presented oral arguments this week. The suit brought by the Sitka Tribe of Alaska seeks to preserve the traditional herring spawn subsistence fishery. ADF&G scientists confirm what many fishermen knew anecdotally—2019 was a hot year and the warmer water temps killed hundreds of thousands of sockeye salmon transiting Bristol Bay to …