Troubled image of AK largest fishery Under fire for the incidental harvest of salmon, which some claim has devastated Chinook returns to the Kuskokwim and Yukon rivers despite any scientific evidence to […]
Trawling 4 love
The bogeyman
Data contradicts feelings Alaska Commissioner of Fish and Game Doug Vincent-Lang went to Soldotna for a fishing conference this week, stated one thing obvious about the decline in Alaska king salmon, and […]
It begins
Newest dipnetters can sell their fish Dipnetting for Cook Inlet salmon, which usually doesn’t get underway until the opening of the Kasilof River tomorrow, jumped off to an earlier start last week, […]
Gone forever?
Alaska’s incredibly shrunken salmon Why is it that an Alaska Congressional delegation that almost never objects to federal dollars flowing north is in a tizzy about a National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]
For the fish
An Alaska judge on Monday decided that salmon matter more than money and turned down a request that he order state Commissioner of Fish and Game Doug Vincent-Lang to reopen commercial setnet […]
Clean fishing
The handwriting might be on the wall for the commercial gillnet fisheries targeting Columbia River salmon in the wake of a new study documenting how almost unbelievably clean it is to fish […]
Angry Canadians
Along the Pacific coast of Canada, where salmon runs are struggling so badly that there are fears they are dying, the finger of blame is being pointed at ocean harvests to the […]
Dividing the baby
Alaska’s Kenai River is today a textbook example of the problems of managing mixed-stock fisheries right down to commercial set gillnetters protesting they catch comparatively few of the weak stock. The weak […]
Troubled success
Once more, a salmon population that has established itself as the state’s most successful salmon rehabilitation effort is complicating fisheries management for Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologists charged with controlling […]
Salmon kings
While Alaska was trumpeting a 2019 Alaska salmon harvest worth $657.6 million, Norwegian salmon farmers were the ones truly raking in the cash. The Norwegian Seafood Council is reporting NOK $107.3 billion […]
