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Kayla Desroches/KMXT On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report, the governor and lieutenant governor sent a letter to the federal government asking for a fisheries disaster declaration for the 2018 Pacific cod fishery in the Gulf of Alaska. Also, in Kodiak area state waters, big boats are capped off at 50 percent of the pot cod allocation, leaving the smaller boats …

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, Solid Waste Advisory Board Member Nick Szabo and Sun’aq tribal biologist Kelly Krueger talk about the single-use plastic bag ban to take effect in Kodiak on April 22.

Coming up on this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report, electronic monitoring is in its first official year as an option for fixed gear fishing vessels in the North Pacific Observer Program. But it has a lot of room to grow. Also, King salmon are getting smaller along the West Coast. A recent study looks at why. We had help from KBBI’s …

Coming up on this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report, the decision about Pacific halibut quota is focused in D.C. right now. There’s still a lot for regulators to work out before the halibut season opens at the end of March. Also, the cut to Pacific cod quota this year has been rough for many fishermen. KMXT chatted with one vessel owner …

On today’s Talk of the Rock, we talk about school safety in light of the recent violent incident at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on Feb 14, where a school shooter killed 17 people. Joining are Kodiak Island Borough School District Superintended Larry LeDoux, Kodiak Middle School Principal Melissa Haffeman, Kodiak High School Principal Mel LeVan, and …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Coming up on this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report, Alaska will receive recovery funds for the 2016 pink salmon season in the Gulf, but there are still a lot of unknowns surrounding their distribution. Also, Kodiak is losing its fisheries analyst. At least temporarily. We had help from KRBD’s Maria Dudzak, KTOO’s Jacob Resneck, and the Northwest News Network’s …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Coming up on this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report, the Stand for Salmon initiative aims to protect salmon habitats from industry development, but industry professionals are concerned the regulations are too stringent. Also, climate change’s ripple effects are making themselves evident on land, too. Economists are trying to determine the damage to coastal communities when fish just don’t show …

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, we chat with Alutiiq Museum Development Assistant Jeff Garcie. He joined staff in 2017 as part of the federally-funded Digital Inclusion Corps, which aims to build digital knowledge and broadband infrastructure in rural areas. He looks back at the program and what’s happened during his time working with the villages. Then, we talk …

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches chats about genealogical research with library director Katie Baxter and the Kodiak Public Library Association’s Laurie Madsen. This month, the library will provide a number of resources to help residents research their ancestry.

Listen as seven storytellers share their stories around the theme “Salty” in a live performance recorded on December 8, 2017 at the Kodiak Harbor Convention Center. The show first aired on KMXT 100.1 FM on Sunday, December 17, 2017. The next Galley Tables event is on January 12, 2018 at the convention center. That show will air on KMXT on January 21, 2018.