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Fishing boats in Kodiak. (Photo by James Brooks / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT Gov. Bill Walker and Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott signed a letter last week asking the federal government to declare the 2018 Pacific cod fishery in the Gulf of Alaska a disaster. If the fishery is declared a federal disaster, it’s eligible for relief funds, although where those would …

Pinks in Sitka. (Photo by USDA Forest Service Alaska Region / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The president signed a bill this month that directs recovery funds to fisheries disasters on the West Coast, including in Alaska, but it’s still unclear how the limited funds will be distributed. In a letter to the U.S. Senate in January, senators wrote that they saw …