Seldom if ever has a more than two-year-old op-ed in an Alaska newspaper attracted the kind of attention the Alaska House Resources Committee on Monday night devoted to the jottings of retired […]
Salmon passions
Fair-undrum
News analysis The commendable thing about humanity is that humans, at least many of them, believe in the fundamental, philosophical ideals of equality, justice and fairness. But what happens in a complex […]
Salmon ceasefire
Alaska’s salmon farmers and their critics have come to an agreement that the almost 2 billion hatchery fish the 49th state dumps in the Pacific Ocean each year at warrant an annual […]
Good news bad
News analysis The bright spot for one of Alaska’s largest industries is that the prices paid to commercial fishermen for salmon look to be headed up this year and could keep trending […]
Future years
Norwegian salmon is flooding into China and the first, farmed Chinese salmon are due to hit the market to help grace the traditional Yee Sang prosperity salad as the lunisolar calendar officially welcomes […]
Tomorrow’s fishery
While fisheries biologists in the north are hard at work crunching numbers in an effort to develop their best guess at how many salmon will return to Alaska next year, Atlantic […]
Clean fish
News analysis The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) was out this week with an ominous warning about the disappearance of global fish and wildlife, and the huge volumes of plastic in the […]
AK leads way to #1!
The annual report from the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission is out and the United States, led by Alaska, is the 2017 world leader in hatchery-salmon ranching. Almost 1.9 billion immature salmon […]
Bad to worse
More bad news for Alaska’s third-largest industry is coming out of Europe. Dutch-based banking and financial powerhouse Rabobank, a global leader in food and agriculture financing, says the aquaculture business has grown by […]
Gone fish
As the Alaska summer winds to a close, a hunt is on for the missing sockeye salmon of the 49th state’s fabled Copper River. It might be the perfect ending to the […]
