
Window opens for possible “Fish War’ game changer Amidst chaos comes the change if not the need to think outside the box, and thus Alaska fishery biologists today find themselves staring […]
Window opens for possible “Fish War’ game changer Amidst chaos comes the change if not the need to think outside the box, and thus Alaska fishery biologists today find themselves staring […]
Tired Iditarod dogs could be seen to look ‘exhausted’ Yet again, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has a public relations problem because people have noticed the esoteric little race across the […]
A group of international fisheries scientists is now pointing out the simple, ecological reality of mathematics long ignored by Alaska salmon managers: addition matters as well as subtraction. With the […]
Both Russia and Alaska expect big pink salmon numbers this year A humpy swarm is again forming the North Pacific Ocean if fishery managers in Russia and the U.S. are to […]
The Iditarod and the quest for speed Part III of III Ever since musher Rick Swenson’s epic, man-against-the-elements victory of 1991 when he went to the front of his dog […]
Two women made famous the ‘Last Great Race’ Part II of III Any history of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Races is most accurately recorded in the years BR and AR – […]
A withering Iditarod faces an unknown future Part one of a series Forty years ago, a young Athabascan dog driver named Howard Albert from the village of Ruby on the Yukon River […]
The hidden costs of Alaska hatcheries Commercial salmon fishermen all along the West Coast of North America may be paying a serious price in lost poundage to help put dollars in the […]
A rare polar attack that left a 24-year-old woman and her year-old son dead in Wales, Alaska, in January appears now to fit a pattern first noticed more than three decades ago […]
UPDATE: This story has been revised from the original to reflect the similar declines in wild Southeast Alaska chum masked by an increase in hatchery chum production. As Southeast Alaska catches of […]