Nearly 2,000 tons of subsea fiber has begun the journey from Europe to Alaska and its eventual home on the ocean floor along the Aleutian Chain; Celebration — the every-other-year gathering of Indigenous people in Southeast Alaska — kicked off Wednesday in Juneau; and a group of researchers is hoping that data collected from Gulf of Alaska's sea floor will shed new light on the environmental effects of bottom trawling.
Hope McKenney is a public radio news director, reporter, producer and host based in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska.