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 […]
Shrinking salmon
Killer bears
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 […]
Canada’s loss
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 […]
1,000 cuts
Media credibility in this country is at an all-time low not so much because of big media biases but because of the little errors that make it appear old media doesn’t […]
Reinventing salmon
Coming soon to a restaurant near you, freshly brewed salmon. Or, more accurately, coming as soon as the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decides to call it. San Francisco-based Wildtype has […]
Colder warming
Alaska’s largest city ended the year 2022 tracking decades-old climate predictions that Anchorage would become more like Juneau and Juneau more like Seattle. The National Weather Service reported the year just […]
They’re everywhere
Update: This story was edited on Jan. 11, 2023 to include more information from the Scottish study. Half a world away from Alaska in the North Atlantic Ocean, the salmon with which […]
A brief reprieve
The world’s salmon farmers appear to have had their first off-year since 2016, according to the latest report from Rabobank, the Netherlands-based banking and financial services company that carefully tracks aquaculture. When […]
Trail bashing
The snows are piled deep in Alaska’s urban core this year, and modern-day adventurers are doing what winter adventures have done for more than 100 years in the north: bitching and moaning […]
Swallowed by Alaska
Twenty-five years ago, Sheila Nickerson, a woman who was the Alaska poet laureate when that meant something, wrote a book about those lost in Alaska titled “Disappearance: A Map; A Meditation on […]
