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 ocean giveth
Alaska’s mafia
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 […]
High crimes
And Permanent Fund misdemeanors Alaska Democrats are upset that Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, followed the lead of the Alaska Permanent Fund and invested in a highly successful salmon farming business. They should […]
Brewing disaster
Sound salmon fisheries collapsing With the normal peak of Prince William Sound salmon returns now in the rearview mirror, the ocean-farming heartland of the 49th state is marching toward a commercial fishery […]
Failing success
The downside of salmon factories The time has come for Alaskans to accept the reality that a state-backed program began in the 1970 to use salmon hatcheries to farm the sea was […]
Dreaded over-escapement
Scientific guestimating For years now, Cook Inlet commercial fishermen have been trooping before the Alaska Board of Fisheries to complain that the state is undermining the productivity of the Kenai River, the […]
Unseen disaster
The costs of social engineering salmon harvests Part II of II To begin to understand how Alaska has so devalued salmon – once one of the state’s most valuable resources – one […]
The warrior
Fighting for Alaska wild salmon Now 82 years old, Virgil Umpenhour has been at war with Alaska’s commercial salmon farmers, or ranchers as they prefer to call themselves, for most of his […]
No salmon problems
Industrial-scale, ocean farming all good – state officials Only weeks after a Seattle biologist warned Canadians that salmon numbers in the North Pacific Ocean have reached the point where ocean-farmed fish threaten […]
Frankenfish ‘culled’
Financial collapse kills AquaBounty salmon plans Score one for Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska. AquaBounty Technologies – the Massachusetts-based company that claimed to have found “a better way to feed the world” with […]
