Russia and Alaska continue to hog the harvests of North Pacific salmon, according to the latest report from the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC). Though the Russian harvest is little noticed […]
Fishlandia
COVID gamble
As Alaska salmon processors head into the fishing season hopeful of dodging the perils of the pandemic, a new report on the meat and poultry industries paints a portrait of a problem-filled […]
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 […]
Dirty hands
Worldwide, more than 1.5 million people per year were dying from lung infections – 60 percent of them caused by viruses – before the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 emerged earlier this year to spawn […]
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 […]
The season begins
The Alaska fishing season in the Year of COVID-19 is off to a very rocky start. Salmon catches in the fabled Copper River fishery were far below expectations on Thursday with […]
Penning COVID-19
UPDATE: This is an update version of an earlier story. With almost 64,000 Americans now reported dead as a result of the corona-virus COVID-19 and the communities surrounding Alaska’s salmon-rich Bristol Bay […]
Troubled seas-food
A month ago, Blue Harvest Fisheries was touting its state-of-the-art plan to keep the pandemic coronavirus COVID-19 out of its processing plant in Bedford, Mass. Thursday the New Bedford Board of Health […]
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 […]
Management mythology
In the strange, pandemic world of today, one of the unintended victims of the coronavirus COVID-19 could be the regularly and often loudly stated danger of “over-escapement” of salmon into Alaska streams […]
