Alaska’s now popular Knik Glacier has bagged its first misguided adventurer of the winter season. Social media was this week lighting up with photos of a late-model Ford Ranger pickup truck that […]
Careful out there
The dark side
Backed by the conservative Pacific Legal Defense Foundation, three Homer fishermen have gone to court to try to overturn the pending closure of commercial salmon netting in the federal waters of Cook […]
The salmon yo-yo
Once more the pendulum of ocean productivity has swung back to bless Alaska commercial salmon fishermen and processors – or at least some of them – with another season of bounty, […]
Moose-arrazi
The annual, post-rut congregation of bull moose has arrived in Powerline Pass above Alaska’s largest city, and with it a golden opportunity to harass the wildlife. Some simply call this “wildlife […]
Unvestigative journalism
Leave it to a journalist funded by a “nonprofit investigative-news organization” based in Los Angeles to somehow either miss or overlook the fact Alaska is awash in salmon. The harvest this year […]
Tastes better
Every day it seems to become just a little more obvious that the future of the commercial salmon business is on land no matter what Alaskans might think about where the tastiest […]
Old becomes new
PLACER RIVER – The wind blew hard and cold from the north on Tuesday, and the new normal urban Alaska has come to expect seemed a long time gone. The snow was […]
Dividing the baby
Alaska’s Kenai River is today a textbook example of the problems of managing mixed-stock fisheries right down to commercial set gillnetters protesting they catch comparatively few of the weak stock. The weak […]
Simple solution
The third rock from the sun in the Milky Way galaxy is a planet in a constant state of change inhabited by lifeforms that either adapt or perish. Yes, we’re talking here […]
The bogeyman
The Kenai River return of sockeye salmon, which might have exceeded spawning needs last year, will almost certainly exceed the desired escapement this year. Cue the “over-escapement” ranting. And credit the commercial […]
