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On this week's episode with host Katherine Irving, the deadline is coming up to register to vote in the Alaska state primaries, ADF&G launches a new bycatch portal, new KIBSD superintendent Daniel Brigman attends his first regular Board of Education meeting, four whales wash up dead on the Kodiak archipelago, Alaska Public Media reports on ways to avoid getting cyclosporiasis, and the Borough Assembly swears in a new member.
Eligible voters must be at least 18 years-old, a U.S. citizen and an Alaska resident, living in the district they want to vote for, at least 30 days before the election. You can check your voter registration status online.
All bycatch data from federally managed pollock trawl and groundfish fisheries in the state are now available in one place. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game recently launched a bycatch portal on its website years after it was recommended by the governor’s bycatch task force at the end of 2022.
Four Kodiak residents applied to fill an open seat on the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly left vacant by Dave Johnson earlier this summer. Thursday night, July 16, the Borough Assembly interviewed all four candidates and selected one of them to fill the seat until the municipal election in October.