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 […]
Killing chums
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 […]
Trawling 4 love
Troubled image of AK largest fishery Under fire for the incidental harvest of salmon, which some claim has devastated Chinook returns to the Kuskokwim and Yukon rivers despite any scientific evidence to […]
More losses
AK salmon ranch business failing The Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association (CIAA) – the Weyerhaeuser of the Alaska salmon ranching scene – is poised to post huge financial losses again this year. A […]
Russia wins
Competition for cheap protein Russia looks to have once again beaten Alaska in the annual battle to produce the maximum volume of the lowest-value salmon in the Pacific Ocean, and this despite […]
