But tops for retirees With the winter of 2025-2026 delivering every kind of seasonal bad to Alaska’s urban core, older Alaskans might have trouble accepting this news, but the data-crunching website WalletHub […]
Not quite Florida
China wins
The global humpy leader Scientists can argue about the ecological consequences of Alaska salmon hatcheries helping to flood the North Pacific Ocean with pink salmon, but what appears clear now is that […]
Humpies invade
The all-conquering pink salmon While Alaska fisheries biologists have been fretting about whether pink salmon straying from the state’s ocean-farming ranches could damage the genetics of wild, 49th-state pinks, the feral progeny […]
Killing chums
An Alaska fisheries management failure Seemingly without thought, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has confessed to mismanaging wild chum salmon in Southeast Alaska to the benefit of private hatcheries run […]
Weather v. climate
Goodbye, Seattle of the North What a difference a few years can make in Alaska. Five years ago, the New Year’s Eve view from top of the Hotel Captain Cook in downtown […]
Drug free?
Salmon farmers make big claim Nova-Austral, a Chilean salmon farming business, is claiming to now be raising antibiotic-free salmon. If the claim is true, it would put the company one up on […]
War on farmers
Is Alaska next? As if the Alaska commercial salmon fishing business didn’t already have enough problems, now some Michelin chefs have the knives out. WildFish, a charity based in the United Kingdom, […]
Alaska Salmon 2025, modern history IV
Food for pets Part 4 of a 4-part series The road to hell on which the Alaska salmon fishing industry finds itself today was paved with good intentions that stretch all the […]
AK Salmon 2025, modern history I
The roots of disaster Part 1 of a 4-part series Thirty-five years ago, Alaska politicians and the politically powerful commercial fishing interests that had long punched above their economic weight in the […]
Into the dark
Cheer up, it’s worse elsewhere As Alaska starts down the tunnel toward the long season of the SAD dark, there comes this good news: Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is worse in 13 […]
