The fall of Alaska’s king crab and snow crab fisheries is driving the F/V Time Bandit, featured on the Deadliest Catch, south to California where it will test a new deepwater crab fishery; Unalaska City School District Superintendent Jim Wilson says one of the island’s bus drivers is leaving town for a family emergency and the district will have to get by with just one bus for now; and the U.S. Coast Guard seized 117 pounds of illegally caught Halibut near Homer last week.
Theo Greenly covers the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands for the Alaska Desk from partner stations KUCB in Unalaska, KSDP in Sand Point and KUHB in Saint Paul.