Summer has arrived in the north, and with it there is everywhere talk of fish. In Alaska, some of the people fish all of the time, and most of the […]
5 fish myths
Ecosystem chaos
With Canadian and Pacific Northwest scientists readying a claim to yet more evidence of hatchery pink salmon overgrazing the pastures of the North Pacific Ocean to the detriment of Chinook and other […]
Copy and ink
They laid Jim Macknicki to rest on Thursday. He was a man who spent most of his adult life doing the most thankless job in journalism with devotion and integrity. I knew him […]
Whose pasture?
News analysis On a three-three vote, the Alaska Board of Fisheries has allowed to move forward a plan to dump another 18 million or so pink salmon fry into the Port of […]
Be afraid
A new study of cyclists riding the bike paths and streets of London found almost three out of four regularly worry motorists are out to kill them. One can […]
Deadly little fish
With a growing number of Alaskans pushing the state Board of Fisheries to take a closer look at 49th state salmon ranching, scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Australia […]
Halibut trash
Only in Alaska, which likes to claim title to the world’s “best-managed fisheries,” would halibut now retailing at prices in excess of $20 per pound be ground into fish meal to feed […]
Runaway net pens
Pens loaded with immature salmon tore loose from their moorings in Kachemak Bay on Thursday, but the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association (CIAA) says Alaska dodged the Great Salmon Spill that rocked the […]
Winter lives on
Little could Carlos Lozano know that the uncomfortable process of getting an artificial knee this April might save him a big, snowy headache. Lozano is the heart and soul of the Alaska […]
Tourism’s CO2side
All that trendy ecotourism, as it turns out, might not be so eco, but then it’s only a small part of the climate problem caused by well-to-do residents of first-world countries […]
