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Alaska News Nightly: Monday, September 20, 2021

A grey seal sits on a piece of drift wood
Tracking instruments are temporarily glued to female northern fur seals. (Carey Kuhn/NOAA Fisheries)

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Monday on Alaska News Nightly:

Alaska residents weigh in on the proposed redistricting maps. Also, scientists find a culprit in the dramatic fur seal decline in the Bering Sea: the pollock industry. And a new study will look at snow cover in Alaska.

Reports tonight from:

Andrew Kitchenman and Rhonda McBride in Juneau
Lex Treinen and Liz Ruskin in Anchorage
Theo Greenly in Unalaska
and Dan Bross and Mary Auld in Fairbanks

Alaska News Nightly is hosted by Casey Grove, produced by Annie Feidt, with audio engineering by Toben Shelby.

Casey Grove is host of Alaska News Nightly, a general assignment reporter and an editor at Alaska Public Media. Reach him at cgrove@alaskapublic.org.