On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Kirsten Dobroth of KMXT talks to NOAA fisheries scientist Mike Litzow on the impacts of accelerating climate change in the Arctic, and Lauren Wild of University of Alaska Southeast on sperm whales vs. longliners.
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Kodiak’s annual commercial fishing trade show ComFish kicks off in-person and virtually on Thurs., March 23. The event typically brings together a mix of vendors, fishermen, lawmakers and scientists to discuss and celebrate the state of Alaska’s fisheries. And one topic is top of mind at this year’s conference: climate change. “For years now we’ve been thinking about climate change …
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Joining millions of demonstrators across Alaska and around the world, Kodiak held its own climate strike on Saturday morning. Roughly 30 protesters turned out on the lawn outside the post office, hoping to spread community awareness and encourage political action on climate change. Protestors gather outside Kodiak’s post office to advocate for climate action on Sept. 21, 2019. (Photo by …
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Meeting of Governor Walker’s Climate Action Leadership team, chaired by Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott, on the University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, in Fairbanks, Alaska, April 12, 2018. (Photo by David Lienemann, Office of Governor Bill Walker / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott sees a future for renewable energy in Alaska. Mallott dropped by Kodiak last week for a …
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On this week’s Talk of the Rock, KMXT features a lecture from Kodiak’s commercial trade show, ComFish. Mike Litzow with the University of Alaska talks about the Alaska marine heat wave and the effect of global warming on fish in Alaska waters.
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Sea ice off the coast of Alaska in the Bering Sea (Photo by Stuart Rankin / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT A biologist went over climate change and its effects on marine life at Kodiak’s commercial fisheries trade show, ComFish, last week. Mike Litzow, a research faculty member with the University of Anchorage Fairbanks, explained how human-sourced carbon dioxide has interfered with …
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On Sunday, January 1st, after all 366 days of 2016 had come and gone, a climate scientist with the National Weather Service in Fairbanks finished a project that literally required the entire year’s worth of data. Rick Thoman, is the client science and services manager for the National Weather Service Alaska Region. He looked at temperatures around the entire state …
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Coming up this week, The Blob is not only back, but it turns out it never really left us; and so how is climate change affecting our fisheries? All that, could offshore surveys be predicting an improving king run on the Yukon? We had help from Alaska Energy Desk’s Zoe Sobel and Annie Feidt, and KIYU’s Tim Bodony.
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