No sooner does one Cook Inlet salmon crisis pass than another erupts. This times its coho salmon in the spotlight. Little Susitna River guide Andy Couch said Wednesday he felt like he’d […]
Mat-Su coho struggle
Dipnet curtain falls
The big school of sockeye salmon swarming into upper Cook Inlet in time for the last weekend of the state’s most popular personal-use dipnet fishery wasn’t quite big enough to punch its […]
Lost whale dead
UPDATE: This story has been updated to include new salmon counts and the fact the whale was pulled out of the river and butchered. The meat was described as tasty. […]
Back in business
All it took was a few days of a Cook Inlet free of gillnets, and sockeye salmon were flooding the Kenai River. Since Tuesday, about 300,000 have stormed past the fish-counting sonar […]
Outdoors is big biz
SOLDOTNA – REI, Cabela’s and Bass Pro Shops were busy in Anchorage on Wednesday, and the dipnets were still pouring out the doors of Costco when the Outdoor Industry Association released a […]
Salmon run creeps up
This is a developing story With almost 50,000 sockeye salmon hitting the Kenai River on Monday and another 60,000 going upriver on Tuesday, biologists with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game […]
The fish arrive
If you’re in Alaskan and wanting salmon, get your butt to the Kenai River. After four straight days with Cook Inlet closed to commercial nets because of a faltering sockeye salmon return, […]
Newspaper gone?
On the Friday that The McClatchy Company, one of the country’s biggest news operations, reported a staggering $37.4 million loss for the quarter, The Midnight Sun,, an Anchorage blog, publicly revealed […]
Dipnet struggles
UPDATE: With weekend dipnetting on the Kenai River a bust and sockeye salmon returns badly lacking – the Saturday sonar count was a dismal 14,280 fish – the Alaska Department of Fish and Game […]
The killing land
Predator control in Alaska is once again in the news with the Washington Post charging the Trump administration might open national preserves to hunting “techniques many people consider extreme (such as) […]
