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Their population has declined over time with subsistence hunting closed for most of the last four decades, and researchers are trying to understand what has driven that decline.

KUCB's Kanesia McGlashan Price reports.

Unlike many other waterfowl, emperor geese don't migrate south for the winter.

They spend their entire lives around the Bering Sea, from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta to Kodiak, along the Alaska Peninsula, and across the Aleutian Chain.

It's one of the busiest travel periods of the year on the Aleutian Island.

KUCB's Sophia Stewart Rossi reports.

The idea was brought to the local council during public comment on August 25th by the president of a major seafood processor, UNICEF's Tom Enloe.

The concept would be simple.

Wynette Ayers with the Southwest Alaska Municipal Conference attended the city council meeting virtually.

She said the board that advises the state and ferry issues, the Alaska Marine Highway Operations Board, meets on October 23rd, and she encouraged the city to send the resolution to the board and have a council member attend online to speak to it.

For KUCB, I'm Sophia Stewart Rossi.

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