Once more the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is suggesting a lowering of the spawning goal for late-run Kenai River king salmon, the most revered fish in Alaska. The last time […]
Counting big salmon
We are all racists
f “My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference […]
She’s baaccckkkk…
No, this is not about Sarah Palin. It’s about “La Nina,” the girl who brings the cold north to Alaska. One couldn’t tell it on Saturday along the flanks of the Chugach […]
True fish war
A real fish war – not just another Alaska yelling matching about who gets to catch what – was waged in Prince William Sound this August with one boat nearly sunk, one […]
AK hatchery pollution
“It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.” […]
An AK media fable
This is a story about the death of a dog, a horrible tragedy for those who loved the dog dearly. But more than that, it is a story about the decay of […]
Netting Alaska’s spoils
The most fought-over commodity in Cook Inlet/Craig Medred photo Fifty years ago with runs of most Cook Inlet salmon failing, every fisherman – commercial, subsistence and sport – paid the price of […]
Alaska’s greatest gift, Pt. 2
This is part two of a four part series: the fall and rise of Alaska fisheries. For those who came of age or arrived in Alaska after the start of the new […]
Alaska’s greatest gift, Pt. 1
This is the first part of a four part series : Fishing, a very special business. Forty-four years ago, average Alaskans voted one of the state’s most powerful special interest groups a […]
Kenai fish fight
After Kenai River personal use dipnetters struggled through an often slow July trying to catch their winter supply of sockeye salmon, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game refused to grant them […]
