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 reports from the Aleutians as a Report for America corps member. He got his start in public radio at KCRW in Santa Monica, California, and has produced radio stories and podcasts for stations around the country.