Sand Point, Alaska lacks commercial radio and a local newspaper, making KSDP the primary source of music, emergency alerts, sports commentary, and state and local news. KSDP provides crucial fisheries information, including an August interview where station manager Austin Roof questioned fish biologist Matthew Keyes about escapement rates and harvest levels. June featured among the lowest salmon harvests on record, while July improved, and officials ordered a 60-hour fishing closure in early August with daily radio updates on openings. KSDP also delivered tsunami warnings and evacuation orders, directly affecting residents' safety and livelihoods.
But KSDP, the local public radio station for Sand Point, is a community anchor, bringing listeners music, emergency alerts, live color commentary of high school sports, state and local news. Without a newspaper specifically serving the town, the station is residents' resource for all things local. On 1 August, for example, KSDP hosted an interview with local fish biologist Matthew Keyes. Asking the questions was Austin Roof, general manager of the station.
Over fuzzy microphones, the two volleyed stats back and forth about the escapement rates of pinks and kings (colloquialisms for two of the most fished species of salmon). Roof served as a stand-in for the laborers listening at home or aboard their ships, asking about the noticeably low catches early that summer; Keyes told listeners that while June was among the lowest harvests on record, July had been much better.
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