If you’re an Alaska commercial salmon fishermen, be forewarned; the farmers in Wisconsin are coming for you. Dangers lurking in the future might be easy to overlook coming after another boom […]
A dark horizon
Home of the rich
Global warming might portend all sorts of future problems from Alaska, but so far it’s coming up nothing but roses for the Bristol Bay region of the state. The U.S. Bureau of […]
Tech threat grows
News analysis Nothing but bad news for Alaska commercial fisheries and one of Alaska’s historically largest employers is contained in a new report from Rabobank – the huge, Dutch financial company the […]
The failed ban
The coming year marks the 30th anniversary of the state of Alaska’s attempt to control world salmon markets by banning fish farming in the 49th state. It would seem an appropriate time […]
Doomsday
Despite The Nation magazine this month suggesting Alaska salmon in peril, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game says consumers need not worry about eating wild-caught fish from the 49th state. Salmon […]
Real world
News analysis While the Alaska Department of Fish and Game was celebrating what it claims as another “record” season for commercial fishermen in remote Bristol Bay, a company rooted in Denmark was forging […]
Alaska’s bounty
For the fourth time this decade – but only the eighth time in the state’s 60-year history – Alaska is on the cusp of posting another salmon harvest at or above the […]
Sea change
Across the remote, nearly 1 million square miles of water stretching north and south of the Arctic boundary between the U.S. and Russia, a monumental ecological shift powered by rising water temperatures […]
Alaskaland entry fee
A cash-strapped state of Alaska long looking for a way to make a buck off non-resident workers and tourists might turn its attention to France which is about to impose an “eco-tax” […]
Thank Pebble
Inadvertent though Pebble’s role might be, the hugely controversial, proposed, copper mine near Lake Iliamna clearly deserves some credit for inspiring at least a small effort to pick up some of the […]
