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Pacific Fishing is edited for commercial fishermen and seafood business professionals working in the world's most profitable fishing region - from Alaska to Baja.
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A new, 52-part radio series will detail the rise and fall of one of Kodiak’s most prolific fisheries, that of Kodiak king crab. King crab first appeared in Kodiak in the 1940s and disappeared in the 1970s. However, before the fishery officially closed in 1982, the king crab harvest buoyed Kodiak from a small fishing town to one of the busiest ports in Alaska. The radio series, “When Crab Was King: The Rise and Fall of the Kodiak King Crab Fishery,” kicked off the first week of May, according to a press release. It is produced by the Kodiak Maritime Museum through a grant from the Alaska Humanities Forum. The oral history interviews from which the shows’ material comes were conducted by award-winning journalist Maggie Wall who also produces the LegHead Report, a daily radio program about the Alaska Legislature and how it works. “It’s really cool that the Kodiak Maritime Museum was able to get this grant and do this project,” Wall said. “I came here at the tail end of the fishery and remember all the lights of the crab boats out on the water at night. I was in the Coast Guard so I have memories of all these fishermen chattering on the radios all night long and talking in funny codes so no one would know their secret fishing spot.” For more information on the project, call the museum, 486-0384 or visit kodiakmaritimemuseum.org. – Kodiak DailyMirror |