Actually, there are six villages on Kodiak: Ouzinkie, Port Lions, Larsen Bay, Karluk, Old Harbor, and Akiok. Plus a handful of smaller settlements. I've lived in two, and have a home in one. I lived in Larsen Bay in the early '90s, during the last halibut "derby" opener, and watched as the seasonal deckhand work sailed into the sunset.

No one has ever explained to me how privatization of fisheries - or any other public resource - benefits their management. In the case of halibut longliners, once they had secured their "shares", they went after the charter boats, whose sole connection was to bring the public (supposed owners of the resource) to the fish. Now the charter boats have "catch shares", which limits the public's access to its own fish, and drives up the cost of that access. Sweet.

As a documented long time hunter and fisherman, I surely deserve my very own catch share$, so as to help better manage the resource. But only for me and a few buddies. Resources are limited, right?