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For years, the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute has worked to increase demand for herring in the U.S. But as the herring market hasn't budged, it's turned to European fisheries for new ideas.
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Hawkins devoted his career to planning and managing land use, which included work for Choggiung Village Corporation in Dillingham and 16 years with Bristol Bay Native Corporation, where he retired as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.
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Representatives will participate in the Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference and will also host a training session on how to track seabird die-offs at the Bristol Bay campus on Friday.
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The park is now in the second year of a permit program aimed at educating visitors on how to behave along the Brooks River, and staff want to hear from the public.
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Without an additional $400,000 from the city, the school says arts, music and sports could face cuts. But city officials say they've deferred paying municipal bills to continue funding the school in recent years.
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The Dillingham City School District is requesting extra funding this year to keep up with rising costs. But the city already pays more than it has to.
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“Everything we want to be today, our ancestors already were. What we're trying to achieve isn't impossible; it already was," said Igiugig Village Council President AlexAnna Salmon during her keynote address at the Bristol Bay Sustainability Summit.
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Fish processors have indicated they will not buy Togiak herring this season. That means that this spring, over 57,400 tons of herring will go unharvested. But the herring themselves are doing just fine.
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At the end of last year, before the EPA issued the decision, the Pedro Bay Native Corporation closed a $20 million deal that blocked the Pebble Limited Partnership’s proposed route to transport materials to and from the giant copper and gold deposit.
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Independent House District 37 Rep. Bryce Edgmon came into the KDLG studio on Friday discuss education funding and other budget items, including state primacy of Section 404-c of the Clean Water Act. This week the Alaska legislature’s House Finance Committee will hear public testimony on the budget.