Examining Anchorage’s Deadly Streets After a day spent perusing social media views on the record number of pedestrians being run down and killed by motor vehicles in Alaska’s largest city this year, […]
True traffic facts
Send help
Predictable call to aid Alaska fishermen The demand for a bailout of Alaska commercial salmon fishermen who didn’t see the salmon returns they expected this year didn’t take long. Alaska Rep. Sarah […]
A century worst
Salmon catch could have 1970s value Update: The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is now reporting that higher prices and a larger than expected return of sockeye salmon to Bristol Bay […]
Welfare time?
Countdown to a disaster request begins The commercial season for pink salmon is done in Prince William Sound with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game reporting a harvest of barely […]
Predictable crash
The up-down cycle of AK salmon Alaska’s ironic commercial salmon fishing business appears to be inching ever closer to a replay of the great crash of 2020. The catch that year […]
Retirement wasteland?
Alaska rated worst for old folk The website Bankrate has a disturbing message for Alaskans thinking about retirement, and it might most easily be summed this way: Get your money and get […]
Disaster brewing
“The Karluk River Chinook salmon escapement through July 25 is 66 fish which is the lowest on record.” “The Ayakulik River Chinook salmon escapement through July 25 is 327 fish, which is […]
Losers vs winners
King salmon going down as pinks go up An eight- to nine-fold increase in Prince William Sound pink salmon now credited to the open-ocean farming of the North Pacific Ocean has […]
More, more, more
Feral pinks add to hatchery returns After decades of straying hatchery salmon trying to turn Alaska’s Prince William Sound into one giant salmon farm, a group of Alaska scientists are out with […]
Market warfare
Canadians dissing Alaska salmon Angry Canadians are going after the Alaska salmon fishery in the marketplace where propaganda can sometimes do some damage. Ocean Wise, the conservation arm of the Vancouver Aquarium, […]
