Programs & Events

First Friday Artwalk: Friday, March 7, 5-7pm 

POSTPONED. We will be postponing the lecture and potluck event at the Kodiak History Museum this Friday. Thank you for your understanding.

Join the Kodiak Maritime Museum (KMM) and Kodiak History Museum (KHM) for a special lecture and potluck event to celebrate KMM’s temporary exhibit, 50 Years of Limited Entry: The Closing of Alaska’s Salmon Commons. This event is free and open to the public.

Inspired by the Kodiak Salmon Life event, KMM & KHM are hosting a potluck event featuring fish dishes. Bring your own dish to share, or enjoy the dishes brought by other community members – everyone is welcome. The potluck begins at 5 PM.

From 5:30-6:30 PM, guest speakers, Courtney Carothers, PhD (University of Alaska Fairbanks) and Rachel Donkersloot, PhD (Coastal Cultures Research), will be presenting “People Who Depend on Fisheries: Limited Entry and Its Lasting Impacts on Alaska’s Rural and Indigenous Youth”:

Passage of Alaska’s Limited Entry Act in 1973 created the largest limited entry program of its kind in the United States. A key objective of Limited Entry was to keep fishing rights in the hands of people who depend on fisheries and support a stable economic base in the relatively isolated fishing communities where fisheries occur. Half a century later, rural and Alaska Native fishing communities across coastal Alaska are losing their local economy through the outflow of fishing wealth and opportunity. This talk discusses the problems with current policy, ongoing effects on communities, and how we might think about solutions moving forward.

 If you are not in Kodiak or cannot make it in person, join us virtually at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86991318929?pwd=JPW7b8Bqky7v239O7KxVfo90vDtbl8.1.