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LatestAs Japan’s consumer tastes change, marketers hope to create the next hot herring product
by Katherine Rose | Oct 3, 2024
While Japan's obsession with seafood may never change, it's tastes are evolving. Alaskan herring roe -- kazunoko -- is finding its way snack foods, and other non-traditional products. But there is strong competition from domestic herring, too. This is Part 4 of "Phantom Fish: The return of Japan's vanished herring industry."
While local herring are more affordable and accessible in Japan, some still look to Alaska for eggs
by Katherine Rose | Oct 2, 2024
Japanese consumers are readily adjusting to the improved size and quantity of domestically-produced herring. But Alaska herring has niche in sushi -- and an alluring wild "brand" that still sells. Part 3 of KCAW's "Phantom Fish: The return of Japan's vanished herring industry."
Hatcheries are helping Japan’s herring industry rebound. What does that mean for Alaska?
by Katherine Rose | Oct 1, 2024
Alaska’s lucrative herring fisheries were born in the 1950s, when Japan’s domestic herring industry all but died out. But Japanese herring are making a comeback now, thanks to a government-sponsored hatchery program that has rebuilt stocks, and most importantly, changed attitudes about hatchery-produced herring in a country that prizes its seafood above just about everything else. In part two of our series "Phantom Fish: The return of Japan’s vanished herring industry," KCAW’s Katherine Rose reports on how hatchery production in western Hokkaido has remade Japan’s herring industry.
Election Coverage
LatestIncumbents hold off challengers in Sitka’s mayor, assembly races
Oct 1, 2024
Sitka voters returned an incumbent mayor, and two incumbent assembly members during the municipal election on October 1, 2024. Voters also elected a new school board member.
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LatestSitka Parks and Rec department earns ‘outstanding’ statewide recognition
Sep 30, 2024
Sitka Parks and Rec was awarded the 2023 Outstanding Organization Award by the Alaska Recreation and Parks Association in September.
Information session (and lunch!) offered for future Medicare/Soc Security enrollees
Sep 26, 2024
Susan Briles and Cindy Gibson will give their semiannual presentation on Medicare and Social Security benefits, beginning 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, October 9, at Harrigan Centennial Hall. Reservations required.
Southeast News
LatestAlaska’s 20-year ferry plan nears completion
by KRBD Ketchikan | Oct 4, 2024
The view from the solarium deck of the M/V Columbia near Klemtu, British Columbia. The M/V...
Preliminary Prince of Wales Island election results
by KRBD Ketchikan | Oct 3, 2024
A sign welcomes people to Thorne Bay, Alaska. The Prince of Wales Island Chamber of Commerce says...
KPD shoots bear on Creek Street
by KRBD Ketchikan | Oct 3, 2024
Creek Street. (Jack Darrell/KRBD) The Ketchikan Police Department shot and killed a bear early...
Alaska News
LatestOn Eklutna River restoration, governor’s decision leaves door open for more ambitious idea
by APRN | Oct 4, 2024
Eklutna Lake is tucked into the Chugach Mountains not far from Anchorage. (Abbey Collins/Alaska...
For the second time, Anchorage Assembly rejects paying legal settlement to Bronson’s ousted municipal manager
by APRN | Oct 4, 2024
Anchorage municipal manager Amy Demboski at the Oct. 27, 2021 Anchorage Assembly meeting. (Wesley...
Overdose deaths jumped in Alaska last year, even as they declined nationally
by APRN | Oct 4, 2024
An opioid overdose reversal kit from ANTHC. The consortium sends kits in the mail to Alaskans...
NPR
LatestIn Michigan, Harris hits back against Trump over his electric car attack lines
by NPR | Oct 4, 2024
The Trump campaign is telling Michigan that Vice President Harris would ban gas-powered cars. At a...
A victim of a crypto ‘pig butchering’ scam just got his $140,000 back
by NPR | Oct 4, 2024
NPR investigated a crypto scam company known as SpireBit, which stole hundreds of thousands of...
Biden says he is worried about violence around the presidential election
by NPR | Oct 4, 2024
President Biden told reporters he was confident the election “will be free and fair,” before...
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