Rookie musher disqualified for drug ideal for sabotage After decades of running an anti-doping program that never publicly revealed an Alaska musher doping dogs, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race says […]
Dopes or doping?
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Predictable call to aid Alaska fishermen The demand for a bailout of Alaska commercial salmon fishermen who didn’t see the salmon returns they expected this year didn’t take long. Alaska Rep. Sarah […]
A century worst
Salmon catch could have 1970s value Update: The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is now reporting that higher prices and a larger than expected return of sockeye salmon to Bristol Bay […]
Newsonomics
Struggling ADN now faces an employee revolt Older Alaskans will remember the days when you could drop a quarter or two in one of the news boxes scattered around Alaska’s largest city […]
Welfare time?
Countdown to a disaster request begins The commercial season for pink salmon is done in Prince William Sound with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game reporting a harvest of barely […]
Salmon disaster
Hatchery failures lead the way With the commercial salmon season in the far north drawing to a close, Alaska is today on track to post the lowest, all-species harvest of the […]
Disaster brewing
“The Karluk River Chinook salmon escapement through July 25 is 66 fish which is the lowest on record.” “The Ayakulik River Chinook salmon escapement through July 25 is 327 fish, which is […]
Losers vs winners
King salmon going down as pinks go up An eight- to nine-fold increase in Prince William Sound pink salmon now credited to the open-ocean farming of the North Pacific Ocean has […]
More, more, more
Feral pinks add to hatchery returns After decades of straying hatchery salmon trying to turn Alaska’s Prince William Sound into one giant salmon farm, a group of Alaska scientists are out with […]
Market warfare
Canadians dissing Alaska salmon Angry Canadians are going after the Alaska salmon fishery in the marketplace where propaganda can sometimes do some damage. Ocean Wise, the conservation arm of the Vancouver Aquarium, […]
