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2025 was another year of growth for Alaska’s mariculture industry, with more oysters and kelp harvested around the state. Those are some of the takeaways from a recent McKinley Research Group report.
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Weekly Wrap
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KMXTOn this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, we hear about how last year went for the kelp industry in Alaska, the Alaska Groundfish Data Bank in Kodiak is winding down operations, our colleagues at KUCB cover changes in the workforce employed by seafood processors, and the Kodiak Island Borough School District's board of education has narrowed its search for its next superintendent to three finalists.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, Toby Sullivan joins us to recap how 2025 went for the Kodiak Maritime Museum and the latest in the non-profit's search for a physical building to host exhibits.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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(KCAW file photo)This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KUCB's Maggie Nelson reports that a major pollock processor will employ fewer foreign workers, KCAW's Katherine Rose says the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery is a go (if anyone goes) and the Alaska Groundfish Data Bank is closing up shop, according to KMXT's Davis Hovey.
Alaska News
- Democrats say Peltola can win Alaska’s U.S. Senate seat. Really, though?
- Alaska lawmakers return to Juneau on Tuesday. Here's what to expect.
- Alaska's first on-site addiction treatment for those who overdose launches with pilot programs
- Alaska kicks off billion-dollar effort to ‘transform’ rural health care
- New country, new language and… a new sport? Teens at East High embrace skiing
- Alaska Appeals Court takes up American Samoa-born woman’s voter misconduct case
- Residents in avalanche zones return home after Juneau clears last evacuation advisory
- Anchorage's 45 outdoor deaths in 2025 fewer than record years but still high historically
- Murkowski wants to reassure Denmark, but it's not clear Congress is with her
- The freshmen: Two new Mat-Su Republicans prepare for their first session
NPR National News
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- New York Giants hire John Harbaugh as coach after identifying him as their top choice
- US launches new retaliatory strike in Syria, killing leader tied to deadly Islamic State ambush
- NASA's Artemis II craft meets the launch pad ahead of crewed lunar orbit
- Trump says 8 EU countries to be charged 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
- 'Not for sale': massive protest in Copenhagen against Trump's desire to acquire Greenland