The problem with agendas With Alaska reporting yet another season in which the harvest of salmon topped 200 million fish, the Associated Press has somehow concluded “climate change” is plaguing the state’s […]
Blinders on
The indictment
Pink salmon disrupt ocean ecosystem Part II of II Scientists who stepped back from looking at the trees to study the forest that is the vast expanse of the North Pacific Ocean […]
Sea change
Major study links pink salmon and ocean chaos Part I of II Pink salmon and the hatcheries helped boost their numbers to never-before-seen highs were Thursday singled out for disrupting the ecosystem […]
Success?
Californians now fatter than Alaskans! Just over a third of Alaskans today qualify as obese, making residents of the 49th state a perfect match for the citizens of Georgia and Maryland, according […]
Uncharted waters
Thin-hulled oil tanker bound for Bering Sea As you read this, the Leonid Losa – a Liberia-registered oil tanker owned by Dubai-based Sun Ship Management and loaded with a million barrels of […]
Demarketing
Canadians target sales of Alaska salmon Stealing a page from the playbook Alaska commercial salmon fishermen and some environmental groups used in an effort to kill net-pen salmon farming more than a […]
Best Buddies
And the hardest goodbyes Fourteen days ago, Lars was in his element, and now he is gone. It’s horribly depressing to write that line, but it wasn’t like the end couldn’t be […]
Attack animals
Dogs more dangerous than bears? Alaskans worrying about bear attacks – as many do – might be spending too much time focused on the wrong animal, according to new data coming out […]
Gone viral
A lost hiker, a camera and an internet sensation A neophyte hiker did what no neophyte hiker should do in Alaska and went off trail. He ended up lost atop barren […]
False fix?
Hatchery benefits to wild fish questioned A “global synthesis” of 51 years’ worth of peer-reviewed studies examining interactions between hatchery and wild salmon has concluded that human efforts to improve on nature […]
