ANCHORAGE — The Alaska red king crab fishery that’s featured on the popular reality show, “Deadliest Catch,” faces an uncertain start because of the federal government’s partial shutdown, and a late opening could have costly implications in Japan.

National fisheries managers who are supposed to assign individual quotas for the multimillion-dollar harvest before its scheduled opening next week are among federal workers who have been furloughed.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Sarah Outen became her own psychological coach along the grueling way to becoming the first woman to row solo from Japan to Alaska.

When she would get discouraged by the relentless challenges of the North Pacific Ocean, the 28-year-old British adventurer would lie on her bed in the cabin of her small boat and gaze at the ceiling, where she had tacked up a world map. She would look at how far she had gone and tell herself it was just a bad day or week.

ANCHORAGE — Dozens of noticeable aftershocks above magnitude 4.0 are expected in the remote Aleutian Island region off Alaska in the days and weeks following a major 7.0 earthquake, the Alaska state seismologist said Saturday.

A dozen measurable aftershocks have already hit the region since Friday’s quake, including one reaching 6.1 in strength, said seismologist Michael West. There have been more than 30 aftershocks measuring at least magnitude 2.5.

ANCHORAGE — An aggressive cow moose was fatally shot last week at Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska, prompting concerns that two calves seen in the area since then could attract bears to the park’s busy entrance, a park biologist said Monday.

A park visitor shot the moose that he said charged at his group, which included two young children. A ranger then fatally shot the wounded animal about 200 yards from the park visitor center. Someone who salvaged the moose said the animal was lactating, National Park Service officials said.