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Coming up this week the North Pacific Council looks ready to get get tough on Bering Sea halibut bycatch, locals along the Kusko want more of a say in their fisheries, and a fisheries observer meets a tragic fate – on shore. All that and more, coming up, on the Alaska fisheries Report. We had help from KUCB’s Lauren Rosenthal …

A group of Kodiak women traveled to a museum in Finland to study Alutiiq garments in the collection there. Back in town, they spent months creating a caribou parka, recreating the techniques they learned from the historic garment. In this interview, learn about the skills, materials, and camaraderie that developed as new skin sewers resurrected ancient Alutiiq skills.

Coming up this week, halibut fishermen get a boost in their catch limit this year, the great winter crime spree in the Dillingham PAF Boat Yard has been solved, and seining for pollock. We had help from KFSK’s Joe Viechnicki in Petersburg, KDLG’s Dave Bendinger in Dillingham and KBBI’s Shady Grove Oliver in Homer.

  Coming up this week, a new fishery on the Kenai will complicate an already nightmarish management picture; the feds reject the petition for a marine sanctuary in the Aleutians, and what do Kodiak fishermen really think about privatization? We had help from KDLL’s Shaylon Cochran in Kenai, KUCB’s Annie Ropeik in Unalaska, KDLG’s Dave Bendinger in Dillingham and KSTK’s …

  Coming up this week, the chairman of the Alaska Board of Fisheries steps down after the governor didn’t approve of his methods of selecting a Fish and Game commissioner. Pollock A Season gets underway, and is there a worldwide salmon glut fishermen need to worry about this upcoming season? All that and more, coming up on the Alaska Fisheries …

  Coming up this week, acting Fish and Game Commissioner Sam Cotton is the only person the joint boards could agree on to interview Wednesday for the permanent position; there are new faces in plenty of fishy jobs, and the winter king troll season is spectacular. We had help from KNOM’s Matthew Smith in Nome, KUCB’s Lauren Rosenthal and Annie …

The final two hours or so of testimony and commissioners’ comments at the P&Z meeting on January 12, 2015

The third hour of testimony at the P&Z meeting on January 12, 2015.

The second hour of testimony at the P&Z meeting on January 12, 2015

/images/stories/WayBackKodiak/CODE_MEETING_Jan_12 _hr1.mp3 The first hour of testimony at the P&Z meeting on January 12, 2015