In one of the stranger twists in the strange world of global salmon marketing, Alaska’s non-farm fish farmers played a role in convincing the Canadian city of Ottawa to order removal […]
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New Ice Age
Alaska’s snowy, frozen urban core The nine feet of snow now burying Alaska’s largest metro area should have come as but a small surprise. With a relatively strong El Niño in the […]
The future?
More than 50 years after Alaska banned fish traps amid a popular belief they were man’s greatest threat to the survival of salmon, researchers studying salmon bycatch on the Columbia River have […]
Small victories
The 2022 fishing season might have left some commercial fishermen in Upper Cook Inlet mad as hell and wanting to do battle with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in court, […]
Dog-eaten paperwork?
Explanations as to why Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race musher Jessie Holmes felt it necessary to shoot four moose in self-defense in the space of a week in February remain unavailable, but […]
Springtime in Alaska
The temperature in Alaska’s largest city officially hit 42 degrees – four degrees shy of a record – on Tuesday as the seemingly “new normal” of the 2010s – abandoned in 2021 […]
Rescue me
In the wake of what is being billed as the largest mountain rescue in Alaska history, it is hard to avoid pondering what the late and legendary Bradford Washburn might think. Washburn […]
How we die
Before COVID-19 changed the world as we knew it six months back, a man named Tom Rach – most likely unknown to anyone reading this – was preparing to attend his 50th […]
Deprivation diet?
Alaska’s decades-long bonanza of pink salmon has now been fingered as one of the likely suspects in a roller-coaster decline in size of four other species of Pacific salmon. After examining a […]
Slim pickings
Commercial salmon fishermen in Alaska’s Bristol Bay are wrapping up another banner season while around the Gulf of Alaska harvests increasingly look on target to register as the worst in more than […]
