Alaskans curious as to the fate of the first and only member of the state Board of Fisheries to stand accused of ripping off the Alaska Permanent Fund will have to wait […]
Still waiting
No fishing
Saving even a handful of king salmon trumps letting surplus sockeye salmon escape into the Kenai and Kasilof rivers the Alaska Board of Fisheries ruled today. The decision came in response to […]
Big losers
Unhappy with how the Alaska Board of Fisheries was managing the waters that lap at the doorstep of Alaska’s urban core, the United Cook Inlet Drift Association (UCIDA) – the powerful commercial […]
Reds in peril
A group of Canadian and West Coast U.S. scientists think they have an answer as to why returns of sockeye salmon to the Kenai, Copper and other Western North American rivers have […]
Wasted
Commercial fishermen in Alaska’s Cook Inlet are accusing the state of a decades-long conspiracy to drive them out of business by allowing too many salmon to enter the Kenai River. Their argument […]
No truce
Not even the dreaded coronavirus COVID-19 seems able stop the fish wars that have long roiled the waters of Alaska’s Cook Inlet. Where some today see a pandemic spreading disease, death and […]
Pain of change
The United Fishermen of Alaska – one of the 49th state’s most powerful political entities – is mad that commercial salmon fishermen might be losing some fishing opportunities in Cook Inlet, but […]
Stormy seas
The problems for Alaska’s commercial fishing industry – once the state’s largest employer but now second to tourism – are growing by the day. Seafood News today reported the lastest survey by […]
Salmon fantasies
Despite a decade-long, average commercial harvest of only about 2.6 million Upper Cook Inlet sockeye salmon, the dream of a scaly silver bounty lives on among the approximately 1,000 Alaskans who own […]
Fish more
Reading through the 260-page, 9/16th-inch thick Alaska Board of Fisheries Proposal Book published by the state, it is clear the one thing Cook Inlet commercial fishermen want most is more fishing time. […]
