Uyaq—Uyak Bay Kugyasigtaallriit Uyarmi.—They used to seine in Uyak Bay. Uyak Bay is the largest fjord in the Kodiak Archipelago. Carved by Pleistocene glaciers, this 40 km waterway stretches from its wide month on Shelikof Strait far into the interior of Kodiak Island, narrowing towards its head. Uyaq is so long it nearly cuts Kodiak in half. […]
Economic activity at Alaska’s False Pass is expected to ramp up considerably this summer as Silver Bay Seafoods opens its processing facilities in June. The company, headquartered in Sitka, Alaska, plans to process salmon as well as white fish at its newest location. “It means in a town of 58 residents, there will be more […]
Nome-based Alaska State Troopers report that there is still no resolution to a six-day search for a 63-year-old White Mountain man that broke through the ice at the mouth of the Fish River and Golovin Bay on Sunday. According to the trooper report, Lincoln Simon went through the ice on Sunday and managed to call […]
DILLINGHAM, AK – Bristol Bay Tribes called on the State of Alaska to protect important cultural resources at Amakdedori Bay on Cook Inlet from Pebble’s toxic exploration efforts. Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources is considering a request from Pebble to allow geotechnical drilling at the site of its proposed industrial port at the ancestral Amakdedori […]