The problem with agendas With Alaska reporting yet another season in which the harvest of salmon topped 200 million fish, the Associated Press has somehow concluded “climate change” is plaguing the state’s […]
Blinders on
Demarketing
Canadians target sales of Alaska salmon Stealing a page from the playbook Alaska commercial salmon fishermen and some environmental groups used in an effort to kill net-pen salmon farming more than a […]
Simple solution
The third rock from the sun in the Milky Way galaxy is a planet in a constant state of change inhabited by lifeforms that either adapt or perish. Yes, we’re talking here […]
Frankenfish arrive
With a pitch for salmon “free of antibiotics and ocean contaminants,” AquaBounty Technologies has announced it is soon to harvest for sale in the U.S. the first of its genetically engineered “Frankenfish,” […]
Alaska to NYT
UPDATED: This story was edited on Aug. 23 to the include the reports of phenomenal sockeye salmon fishing on the Copper River. The bar graph was also reversed to avoid confusion over […]
Organic dangers
Fashionable organic food may be contaminating consumers with microplastics due to microplastic-filled compost polluting organic farms, according to a study published Wednesday in Science Advances. German scientists studying organic fertilizer found it contained […]
Tasty salmon, Florida fresh
More potentially bad news for the Alaska commercial salmon fishing industry was Monday emanating from, of all places, South Florida. On the site of an old tomato farm near a community called […]
21st Century salmon
As Alaska struggles to maintain commercial productivity in its most-valuable, wild-salmon fisheries, competition in the fish market is looming on every horizon. Land-based salmon farms are popping up in odd […]
Alaska Fish Board bail out
As if the Alaska Legislature didn’t have enough on its plate with the state budget spinning into a $3.5 billion abyss, there’s now bad news out of the Alaska Board of Fisheries.
