Wild Fish Conservancy…Intent to Sue Over Alaska Fisheries Catching Threatened and Endangered Pacific Northwest Chinook Without Federal Oversight Alaska theft of others’ salmon exposed The Seattle-based Wild Fish Conservancy has finally figured […]
The traditional, subsistence lifestyle in Alaska is now so far gone that it is hard to live it on an income of $155,000 per year, according to the Washington Post. No, I […]
Alaska salmon management under fire A law-school student now clerking for an Alaska judge has penned the outline for a Constitutional challenge to the way Alaska has for decades managed its salmon […]
Best of seasons Hugh here with a few words. Some of you noticed craigmedred.news went cold for a while, and I’m here to assure you, or irritate you, by reporting that the […]
Did trawlers cause AK salmon disaster? A news analysis Sept. 17 update Almost 18 million pink salmon, along with 13 million sockeye and smaller numbers of chum and coho salmon, have gone […]
The great hatchery promise With Alaska on track to post its worst salmon harvest since 1979, it’s time to revisit the promise made to the state’s once taxpaying voters when they ponied […]
Fairy tales and blindness The great dream of ranked-choice voting in Alaska was that voters wouldn’t “need to worry about ‘spoilers,’ or feel forced to vote for the lesser of two evils.” […]
And the ocean taketh away The 2026 commercial salmon season in Alaska is not yet over, but it can already be called a full-on disaster in Prince William Sound, the heartland of […]
The Big (too) Wild Life With the Chugach Mountain foothills above Anchorage averaging a bear mauling a month in this, the summer of 2026, some seem to be getting a little edgy […]
Has a new don wannabe What a way to end the week. No sooner had I finished a commentary on the ‘Big Lie’ propaganda suggesting that the 49 sockeye killed as trawl […]
