Two of the juvenile rockfish used in the study. /Courtesy: Trevor Hamilton and MartÃn Tresguerres
Scientists have been saying for years that more carbon dioxide in the oceans is hurting sea life. But a new study says the impact goes beyond the physical. It says ocean acidification is changing behavior in fish.
As KUCB's Annie Ropeik reports, that could be a problem throughout the ecosystem -- including for fisheries in Alaska.
Ron Moore of R.L. Moore Metal Recycling loading junk at the landfill. /Courtesy: Shirley Marquardt
The last of nine million pounds of metal junk is being hauled away from Unalaska today.
R.L. Moore Metal Recycling company is finishing up loading the last of the junk at the landfill onto their barge.
It's the end of a nearly two-year project.
Public utilities director Dan Winters says the Virginia-based company has spent months in Unalaska since summer 2012. They’ve removed metal from Resolve Magone Marine Services’ scrapyard, plus the landfill and other areas in town.
On the eve of 'A' season’s start tomorrow, the state department of fish and game has announced parallel groundfish fisheries for 2014.
The annual emergency order means boats can partake in federal fisheries in state waters.
In the Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands district, there will be parallel Pacific cod and sablefish fisheries for jig gear vessels, as well as a parallel Pacific cod fishery for hook-and-line and pot gear vessels.
Canada’s energy authority gave conditional approval earlier this month to the Northern Gateway Pipeline project, which would run through British Columbia and would send hundreds more crude oil supertankers along high-traffic shipping lanes in Alaska waters.
That means the Aleutian Islands will have to prepare for a higher risk of spills and accidents.
The proposed pipeline stretches from Alberta, Canada, out to Kitimat, British Columbia, on the coast. It would carry 520,000 barrels of diluted oil sands bitumen a day.
A map of the new Dutch Harbor subdistrict fishery. /Courtesy: Alaska Department of Fish & Game
The state announced the 2014 guideline harvest levels for Pacific cod in the state-waters fisheries this week.
There will be about 17.86 million pounds of cod available for harvest, both in the Aleutian Islands state-waters fishery and in the new Dutch Harbor subdistrict.
In the Aleutians district, that’s about 12 percent less than last year’s harvest level.
The Aleutian district is divided into A and B season. A season will run Jan. 1 through June 9.
The cast of the living nativity after the show. /Credit: Annie Ropeik
Kids at Unalaska’s United Methodist Church got to tell the story of Christmas in a unique way Wednesday.
It was the annual living nativity -- part holiday pageant, part Christmas service.
Fifteen elementary school kids from the congregation dressed up as wise men, shepherds and angels. They came forward as their parts in the story were told. There was even a baby playing Jesus.
The eagle sits in the rafters of Ship Supply's liquor store. /Credit: Pipa Escalante
Alaska Ship Supply had an unwelcome customer for about three hours Wednesday night -- a bald eagle, which flew in a loading door around 6 p.m. and refused to leave.
The juvenile bird flapped around the store for about three hours before state troopers and employees were able to get it out.
Troopers and local public safety officers tried to scare the eagle down with noise. They clapped their hands and fired loud bursts of air at the eagle with a small air cannon.
