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After a two-week deployment to Bristol Bay, Coast Guard inspectors in the Marine Safety Task Force returned to Anchorage late June, according to a Coast Guard press release. They were conducting missions to support the commercial fishing season. Coast Guard law enforcement teams conducted boardings and enforced maritime law throughout the Bristol Bay region. Coast …

May 12, 2021 by Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO and Alaska Public Media Alaska state Sen. Mia Costello, R-Anchorage, speaks in support of Abe Williams who was rejected from sitting on the Alaska Board of Fisheries on Tuesday, May 11 2021, in Juneau, Alaska. The Alaska Legislature held its annual joint confirmation hearing for dozens of the governor’s appointees …

by Jacob Resneck, CoastAlaska Crew members shovel pollock on the deck of a trawler on a Bering Sea fishing trip in 2019. (Nat Herz/Alaska Public Media) A raw fish tax that has pumped tens of millions of dollars into coastal communities over the past decade has survived a legal challenge before Alaska’s highest court. The state …

The Kodiak Island Borough is proposing to eliminate Service District 2 and is looking for public feedback. Map of Service Area 2 (Kodiak Island Borough) Service District 2, which includes residential and park areas along Monashka Bay Road, was formed in 1991 to allow those residents the power to organize water and sewer services. However, …

This week, the City of Kodiak and Kodiak Island Borough will be taking the final steps toward streamlining coordination and hopefully reducing costs for running the two largest municipal bodies on the island. It will be called the Cooperative Relations Committee, comprised of three members of the City Council and three members of the Borough …

By ISABELLE ROSS • KDLG Dillingham Around 10 seiners, along with a few gillnetters, are expected to tap the 47,300-ton quota. That participation is a jump from last year, but it’s still much lower than normal. A Fish and Game survey photo of Togiak herring on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. (ADF&G) The Togiak purse seine herring fishery …

To ensure that operations in the north pacific area are not disrupted by the decommissioning of the Coast Guard Cutter Douglas Munro, the Coast Guard is going to bring up more cutters. That’s according to Captain Riley Gatewood, the last Commanding Officer of the Coast Guard Cutter Douglas Munro. “Coast Guard Pacific Area cutter forces …

As the Kodiak Island Borough begins to nail down next year’s budget, the debate between education funding and raising property taxes has taken center stage. This year, the Assembly is considering two proposed budgets. The budget prepared by the Borough manager’s office set a $21 million budget, including over $11 million for education support, but …

Special Report By TRIPP CROUSE (KNBA) Listen here: In this 2017 photo, Russian Orthodox Father Innocent Dresdow performs service on the remains in the room where they’re being kept, in a lower level of the Alutiiq Museum. (Photo by April Laktonen Counceller / Alutiiq Museum) In early 2021, the Harvard Peabody Museum issued a statement …

By Angela Denning, KFSK – Petersburg — May 17, 2021 Alaska’s seafood industry has a lot of moving parts. There are the fishermen, the processors and the market, plus all of the fish. By all accounts, the pandemic has hit the processors hard. A recent survey found that they spent about $70 million on COVID-19 …