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Coming up on this last show of the year, OR first one of the new year if you’re listening on Friday or Saturday: Will the University of Alaska mothball its applied research center in Kodiak? The Alaska Board of Fisheries decides to snub Kenai once again, and they talk about coastal erosion. All that, and how the summer salmon season …

Host Kayla Desroches talks about the Kodiak Fisheries Workgroup with Kodiak City Councilman John Whiddon. They cover the basics of what the work group does, its process, and its significance in the community.

Coming on this Solstice-Festivus-Saturnalia-Christmas-Boxing Day-Kwanzaa edition of the Alaska Fisheries Report, a harbor so clean you could probably fish out of it, the art of packing salmon, and if you want to know what people in Sand Point think about genetically-modified salmon, our high school correspondents from KSDP have you covered. All that and more, coming up on the Alaska …

On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks with members of a Kodiak task force who have gathered together to help prevent the closure of the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center due to budget cuts.

Alberta Laktonen was inspired one day in 1955: instead of working in the Larsen Bay cannery mess hall, she would start setnetting. Never mind that she had never fished in her life.

  Virginia Abston speaks about growing up at Park’s Cannery in Uyak Bay and her experiences at Chief Cove, her family’s Uyak setnet site.

      Weston Fields remembers setnetting in Uyak Bay in the old days, when hardy fishermen had solo operations using linen nets and cedar floats.  

  Mark Thissen of Larsen’s Mercantile in Larsen Bay remembers cleaning up oil in Uyak following the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.

      Jane Petrich recalls the day her skiff swamped and she nearly drowned in Uyak Bay. 

Dexter Lorance, longtime foreman at the Larsen Bay cannery, gives a tour of the canning line.