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A healthy Steller sea basks in the sun at the St. Herman Harbor on Near Island. The species is named for Georg Wilhelm Steller, a German surgeon and naturalist who wrote about the species in 1742.
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“Every single time that poor guy moved at all, it would just cut, it would just reopen wounds,” said Matt Van Daele, the Tribe's natural resources director. “I can’t even imagine how uncomfortable it must have been for him.”
Midday Report
  • On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The federal government announced on Thursday that it’s requiring the state to update its water quality standards. A thunderstorm struck Juneau recently. And Researchers have linked warming ocean temperatures to more salmon showing up in the Western Canadian Arctic.
Talk of the Rock
Alaska Fisheries Report
  • An aerial view of the rust-colored Kutuk River in Gates of the Arctic National Park in Alaska. Thawing permafrost is exposing minerals to weathering, increasing the acidity of the water, which releases metals like iron, zinc and copper.
    Credit: Ken Hill / National Park Service
    This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Andy Lusk of KUCB tells of Aleutian mayors and their appeal to the federal government for help during a fish market crisis, Katherine Rose reports on the Sitka Assembly backing halibut bycatch caps for KCAW, KDLL's Ashlyn O'Hara on yet another lawsuit over the Cook Inlet EEZ, and rusting rivers are the focus of a story by KOTZ's Deseree Hagen.