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Jim Harmon, executive director of SeaShare, delivering fish in 2016. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches / KMXT This morning, almost 15,000 pounds of frozen halibut took off from U.S. Coast Guard Base Kodiak on a C-130 aircraft. It’s heading to Nome and Kotzebue as part of a donation through SeaShare. The Seattle-based nonprofit has been organizing the operation locally for five …

Jim Harmon, executive director of SeaShare. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT A Washington-based nonprofit that takes unintended catch from Alaska trawl fisheries and donates it to all 50 states just completed its fifth mission flying the fish from Kodiak to Kotzebue. This is also the second year they’ve transported donations to Nome. Volunteers distribute the boxes comprised of bycatch and incidentally …