Vital stats
Kodiak Island, Alaska
POPULATION: 13,913 (2000 census)
AVERAGE ANNUAL PRECIPITATION: 71 inches
AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE: January, 35º; August, 62º
AVERAGE LOW TEMPERATURE: January, 25º; August, 48º
FIRST SETTLEMENT: Alutiiq peoples arrived 7,500 years ago
RUSSIAN DISCOVERY OF ISLAND: 1762
NUMBER OF COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSELS OPERATING: 900
RECORD-BREAKING YEAR FOR SALMON HARVEST: 1995, 49 million fish