An Alaska judge on Monday decided that salmon matter more than money and turned down a request that he order state Commissioner of Fish and Game Doug Vincent-Lang to reopen commercial setnet […]
For the fish
Unhappy fishermen
KENAI – Friday found the beaches at the mouth of Alaska’s most fought-over river woefully short of dipnetters willing to help stop the possible “over-escapement” of sockeye salmon so feared by the […]
Deadly fun
Icy waters have killed another packrafter, the third in the last eight years to die in one of the rivers of glacier-dominated eastern Alaska. Forty-ninth state adventurer Roman Dial once described the […]
Warmings biggest winner
Climate change is today smiling on the commercial salmon fishermen and salmon processors of Alaska’s Bristol Bay in a big way with daily harvests of sockeye salmon exceeding the annual catches of […]
Missing fishermen
A flood of sockeye salmon was pushing the Kenai Peninsula’s Kasilof River rapidly toward the point of “over-escapement” on Tuesday with Upper Cook Inlet strangely devoid of commercial drift gillnet fishermen. […]
A troubled business
The size of the letters in the handwriting on the wall for the Alaska commercial salmon industry just keep getting bigger. Only days after the Bristol Bay sockeye harvest began with processors […]
Never-ending fight
The 568 commercial fishermen who hold permits to snag salmon in Cook Inlet have won a major battle in the state’s longest-running and most contentious fish war. U.S. District Court Judge Joshua […]
Killing kings
The season for the most popular Alaska salmon in the state’s most populous region had only begun before it largely ended yesterday in another display of the sagging fortunes of Chinook salmon […]
One-man shoot out
UPDATE: Mattanaw Mattanaw today turned to Facebook to offer his version of the alleged gunplay on Stewarts Road last week that led to him being charged with a felony for driving […]
Canada’s anger
Indignant that so many streams and rivers in Alaska are annually plugged with salmon while those to the south of the 49th state struggle, Canadian activists led by commercial fishermen and Native […]
