The forecast is out for the return of sockeye salmon to Alaska’s Upper Cook Inlet (UCI), and it’s looking like a replay of recent mediocre years. The Alaska Department of Fish and […]
Another weak year
Common political ground
In celebration of near unanimity among American politicians of all stripes, let us today note how promises of “open government” proclaimed by political candidates right and left die once they are elected. […]
Searching for answers
Nudged into action by near unbelievable early findings of privately funded probes into the secret lives of Pacific salmon, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced it is this […]
Accept thy neighbor
With Omicron now the dominant SARS-CoV-2 variant in the United States, the time has come to accept defeat in the country’s medical Vietnam. We were never going to win this thing no […]
Still waiting
Alaskans curious as to the fate of the first and only member of the state Board of Fisheries to stand accused of ripping off the Alaska Permanent Fund will have to wait […]
Paint it pink
The North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC) this week posed a question that has been on the minds of some fisheries scientists for years now: “Are There Too Many Salmon in the […]
And the winners are….
One of the big conclusions to be drawn from the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute’s (ASMI) 2022 report on “The Economic Value of Alaska’s Seafood Industry” is that the people involved in fish […]
How it ends?
With the World Health Organization (WHO) on Sunday suggesting 60 percent of Europe could be infected with the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus by March, it’s a good time to […]
The outlaw
After more than six years, one of the longest-running cases in the history of the Alaska Court system appears headed toward an end in a plea deal with the outlaw Roland Maw, […]
The rise of Oo
As in most of the Western world, so too in Alaska now. State Department of Health and Social Services officials Wednesday reported that the Omicron (Greek symbol Oo) variant of the SARS-CoV-2 […]
