KCAW’s Katherine Rose continues her assignment in Japan this week, where she’s looking into the industry and culture of herring. Today, Rose tracks the herring to an early-morning wholesale auction in the city of Otaru, where, in a lightning-fast process that lasts under four minutes, buyers stake their claim to thousands of boxes of hatchery-produced herring – all of which will be processed and retailed in Japan.
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KCAW’s Katherine Rose continues her assignment in Japan this week, where she’s looking into the industry and culture of herring. Today, Rose visits Takashima Fishing Village in the city of Otaru and learns about one family's gillnetting operation.
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KCAW’s Katherine Rose continues her assignment in Japan this week, where she’s looking into the industry and culture of herring. Rose recently visited the Tsukiji Outer Market in Tokyoand met with a vendor who sells sac roe from Alaska.
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KCAW’s Katherine Rose is on assignment in Japan this week, where she’s looking into the industry and culture of herring. Rose’s first stop was the Toyosu Fish Market in Tokyo – the Grand Central Station of Asian seafood.
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The budgeting process for fiscal year 2025 is underway, and when the Sitka Assembly met on February 29, it reviewed the city’s enterprise funds and proposed rate increases. This year, city staff recommended increasing utility rates by four percent for water, seven-and-a-half percent for waste water, four percent for solid waste and four percent for harbors.
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Things became unusually heated at the latest meeting of the Sitka Assembly, after a member of the public – and former assembly candidate – leveled accusations of corruption at municipal government, and claimed his record requests were being wrongfully denied.
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The Sitka Assembly approved a new airport lease between the city and the state last night (2-27-23), clearing the way for the airport expansion project, which kicked off this week.
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Cruise ship tender fees may go up this summer. When the Sitka Assembly meets tonight, it will consider raising both tender and security fees by ten percent for the next three years.
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A first attempt to regulate cruise traffic in Sitka failed to get traction at the assembly table this week. A proposed ordinance creating a permitting process for commercial buses was voted down on first reading, after some worried the measure might harm Sitka’s long-standing tour businesses.
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The city may be adding at least 11 full-time staff positions this year. At a special meeting on February 8, the assembly reviewed budget proposals from city departments, which, in addition to more staffing, include everything from a request for body cameras for Sitka’s police to new deicing equipment for local roads.
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