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WEBSep 27, 2024 · Angela Denning / CoastAlaska. , September 23, 2024. A big portion – $106.4 million – will go towards replacing the 60-year-old Tustumena, seen here in Sand Point in June 2024, that serves the Aleutian Islands. The price tag for the project, called TRV for Tustumena Replacement Vessel, is over $315 million. The …
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WEBAndy Lusk. , September 17, 2024. In this episode of “Island Interviews,” new High School Principal Carly Morris, sixth-grade teacher Kyle Chapman and Student Support Services Representative Heidi Lucking dig into expectations for the year ahead. Newly-minted Unalaskans Morris and Chapman detail what surprised them about the island, too.
Russian, Chinese vessels spotted in Bering Sea, showing ‘increased ...
WEB5 days ago · The U.S. Coast Guard spotted four foreign military vessels in the Bering Sea Saturday. Coast Guard officials say the joint patrol between Russian and Chinese ships shows “increased interest in the Arctic by our strategic competitors." An HC-130J Super Hercules airplane crew from Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak saw four vessels, including ...
Dutch Harbor Remains Nation's Top Port In Terms Of Volume For …
WEBMay 26, 2021 · KUCB. Dutch Harbor has been named the nation's top fishing port in terms of volume of seafood landed for the 23rd consecutive year. And the Aleutians East Borough — which includes Akutan, False Pass, Sand Point and King Cove — rose from third to second place. That's according to an annual report from …
The Case of The Vanishing Seals: An Alaskan Island Mystery
WEBFeb 29, 2016 · Chapter 1. An Amazing Disaster. From a viewing blind in the middle of a seal rookery on Alaska's remote Pribilof Islands, it can be hard to fathom this place once holding vastly more life than it does now. Untold thousands of chubby brown bodies drape over boulders and sprawl across the tundra into the distance: northern fur seals.
Bering Sea snow crab and red king crab fisheries close amid
WEBOct 12, 2022 · Bering Sea snow crab will close for the first time in the fishery’s history. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced Monday afternoon that snow crab — also known as opilio crab — and Bristol Bay red king crab would not open for the upcoming fall and winter fishing seasons. Miranda Westphal, an area management biologist for ADF&G, said stocks are just too low to justify opening ...
Massive loss of Bering Sea snow crab due to ecological shifts
WEBAug 23, 2024 · These were all evident in 2018-2019 when the thermal barrier, a cold pool of water in the Bering Sea, vanished, bringing on extreme ecosystem shifts that allowed different species of groundfish to migrate further north. Litzow and his team had previously confirmed that a combination of these factors caused the crash of snow crab populations ...
Politics chat: Is Democratic enthusiasm at 2008 levels? And, JD
WEBAug 25, 2024 · Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016.
'A Good Library Has Something In It To Offend Everyone': Local
WEBOct 1, 2020 · Every year books are challenged in libraries, bookstores, and schools by people who want to remove or restrict access to certain material. And in 1982, in response to these challenges and as a means to draw attention to the harms of censorship, the American Booksellers Association (ABA) and the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), along with the National ...
The Aleutians have a rat problem. Scientists are trying to solve it
WEBMar 10, 2022 · Scientists are trying to solve it. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife vehicle on Adak Island promoting rat eradication. For millions of years, birds lived nearly predator free in the Aleutian Islands. The volcanic archipelago stretches westward for 1,200 miles from the Alaska Peninsula, dotting a border between the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea.