Patrick Saltonstall/Alutiiq Museum
There’s a common rule of thumb that it’s safe to harvest and eat shellfish during months that have an “r” in their names: September through April. But on the Kodiak road system, researchers are finding that’s just not true.
The Midday Report - Statewide News and Local Events Update Every Weekday
Weekly Wrap
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KMXTIn this week's recap with Host Brian Venua, Old Harbor has water again, Kodiak's Chamber of Commerce held its annual awards dinner, the State of Alaska is looking into an agriculture cooperative and recently published its preliminary salmon numbers statewide, and the Alaska Groundfish Data Bank was raided by state troopers.
Talk of the Rock
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Signal crayfish, an invasive species, are showing signs of stress on the population. Biologists from the Sun'aq Tribe of Kodiak share updates on their efforts and guesses what's going on.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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Photo by Ginny Eckert/Alaska Sea Grant.This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Hunter Morrison gives an update on invasive European green crabs from the studio of KRBD, fishing job numbers are down again, according to KUCB's Theo Greenly, and a wayward fishing vessel was captured in Petersburg, story from Olivia Rose of KFSK.
Alaska News
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- Judge denies Southeast Alaska tribes' effort to dismiss Metlakatla fishing rights case
- Alaska nominee for federal judgeship has smooth confirmation hearing
- Congress deletes Biden's limits on development in NPR-A
- Drones helped speed Halong’s Disaster Declaration, officials say
- Juneau Assembly kills ordinance to adopt local ranked choice voting
- Begich, like rest of U.S. House, votes to release Epstein files
- Alaskans mourn death of avalanche center director and Olympic skier, Wendy Wagner
- One month after Halong, here’s what rebuilding looks like in six Y-K Delta communities
- Alaska advocates for climate-vulnerable villages call for action in wake of devastating storm
NPR National News
- Trump administration seeks to roll back protections for imperiled species and habitat
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- As a labor force, artists are 'invisible.' A new survey tries to change that
- New poetry stresses that our stories are more precious and urgent than ever
- World Toilet Day is today! Um ... is that really the best name?
- This Frida Kahlo painting could break records at auction on Thursday
- Student escapes as authorities search for 24 other girls abducted in Nigeria
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