Alaska’s ‘Wild’ Product of Asia A news analysis With President Donald Trump reguarly ordering or threatening new tariffs to balance the country’s nearly $300 billion trade deficit with China, the Alaska Seafood […]
Cheap labor
Costly gamble
Plan to prop up AK commercial fishing Alaska’s Five-Year Plan for the Production of State Salmon is out with a scheme for the mother of all bailouts of the commercial salmon fishing […]
Big trouble
Salmon processors too poor to pay sick leave Once the economic engine of the Alaska Territory, the commercial fishing industry in the 49th state is now in such dire straits that it […]
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 […]
Bad business
Battering the AK brand Alaska now enters the heart of the commercial salmon season with the fishing industry in chaos. In a commentary in the trade publication Seafood Source, seafood industry consultant […]
Grand illusion
The sales pitch for a state bailout A news analysis The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute is out with its latest propaganda, and the Alaska legacy media is parroting the pitch as representative […]
Bad messaging
Alaska salmon, the poor folks’ seafood! Why, oh why, do the political leaders of the 49th state want to portray Alaska salmon as a commodity the market doesn’t want? First it was […]
Gone processing
The price of progress? As you read this, work is continuing in Bellingham, Wash., on a $40-million, federally financed, salmon-processing barge some think could revolutionize the Alaska fishing business. By spring, the […]
A business in crisis
Alaska salmon processors paint a grim picture After years of choking on record runs of Bristol Bay sockeye salmon and near-record runs of heavily farmed, low-value pink salmon, the Alaska fishing industry […]
Demarketing
Canadians target sales of Alaska salmon Stealing a page from the playbook Alaska commercial salmon fishermen and some environmental groups used in an effort to kill net-pen salmon farming more than a […]
