Tag Archives: Kodiak

Kodiak Sno-Bruins’ secretary Eric Schneider in the Bruin Burger booth at Crab Fest. Jennifer Canfield photo Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The Bruin Burger is a Crab Fest staple. The winter sports non-profit organization, Kodiak Sno-Bruins, sold over 5,400 of the deep fried, hamburger-filled pockets. Volunteers started making them over two weeks ago. If you were able to enjoy a Bruin Burger at …

Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers aboard the International Space Station with his can of Alaska Salmon. Photo by Andre Kuipers Coming up this week, the families of five commercial clam diggers killed last summer are suing Pacific Seafoods, Copper River’s salmon season has opened, with the expected fanfare, and another installment of Fish In Space. We had help from KCHU’s Tony …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Commercial salmon fishing in Alaska is often a family affair, with kids joining parents onboard. There is a problem that pops up though, with very young children and the requirement for immersion or survival suits for everyone onboard a commercial fishing boat. Ken Lawrenson, the commercial fishing safety coordinator in Juneau says the Coast Guard is aware of …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The National Marine Fisheries Service released its report to Congress last week on the state of U.S. Fisheries, noting that many stocks have rebounded, though some remain overfished – especially in New England waters. The report showed six more U.S. fish species once considered overfished rebounded to healthy levels in 2011. That brings the number of rebuilt fish …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Kodiak Island athletes brought home a handful gold medals from the state track and field championships over the weekend in Fairbanks. Raissa Boskofsky of Port Lions is the state 1-2-3-A state champion in the 300-meter hurdles and the high jump. She cleared 5-feet 1-inch. Kodiak High School’s Jordan Fogle won the 800-meters, and he anchored the winning 4-by-800 …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski filed an amendment on the Senate floor Thursday that would bar the Food and Drug Administration from approving genetically-modified salmon for human consumption until NOAA signs off on the plan. Currently, approval of the genetically engineered fish would come administratively, through the FDA. Both Murkowski and Senator Mark Begich have been fighting to stop …

Jay Barrett/KMXT A relatively rare virus in Alaska is being looked at as the cause to an unusually high number of premature births among Steller Sea Lions around Kodiak Island. Marine mammal specialist Kate Wynne, with the University of Alaska’s Marine Advisory Program, says she found four dead pups while on a routine trip to sea lion haulouts this spring.

Jay Barrett/KMXT The State of Alaska released its winter ferry schedule on Friday, and there will be some significant changes to service to and from Kodiak because the ferry Tustumena will be out of service for nearly six months. In the meantime, as Marine Highway spokesman Jeremy Woodrow in Juneau explains, the ferry Kennicott will try to pick up the …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak High School boys track and field team dominated the competition at the Region III championships over the weekend up in Palmer. The Bears racked up 120 team points to Skyview’s 80 and Wasilla’s 76. Jordan Fogel took first in the 400 meters, Cole Christiansen won the 1,600, and Levi Thomet was first in the 3,200 meters, …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Kodiak’s Trevor Dunbar collected one medal and helped the Oregon Ducks to the Pac-12 Track and Field Championship yesterday in Eugene. Dunbar, a sophomore running in his first season at Oregon, placed third in a very close finish of the 1,500 meters, just one-half second behind the winner with a time of 3-minutes 37.55-seconds. In the 5,000 meter …