Twenty-eight years ago, the state of Alaska banned fish farming in favor of salmon ranching. The idea was simple: Catch a bunch of fish, squeeze out their eggs and sperm, mix the […]
Deadly success?
Old is new
Retired Alaska Board of Fisheries member Al Cain is unretired, and non-commercial fishing groups from around the state are declaring victory. Gov. Bill Walker had been planning to replace Cain, a 62-year-old […]
Fighting the tide
News analysis After three years of work, a University of Alaska Fairbanks study of the state’s commercial fishing industry has reached one conclusion nobody in the 49th state wants to talk about […]
The feds arrive
Both economically and biologically, the commercial fisheries of Alaska’s Cook Inlet are imprecise and archaic. And now come federal regulators to try to apply Information Age precision to this chaos of […]
Curtain of death
Two years after a bitter and unproductive fight to remove what are sometimes called the “curtains of death” in Alaska’s Cook Inlet, a new study is suggesting the answer to […]
Maw off the hook
Outlaw former fishermen Roland Maw shook free from the state of Alaska this week, or at least partially so. Juneau Superior Court Judge Louis Menendez freed the former Board of Fisheries member […]
