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 […]
For the fish
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 […]
Now it’s halibut
First the farmers came after the wild salmon. Now they’re coming after the wild halibut. A campaign by Direct Seafoods urging chefs to replace wild halibut with farmed halibut on restaurant […]
Halibut trash
Only in Alaska, which likes to claim title to the world’s “best-managed fisheries,” would halibut now retailing at prices in excess of $20 per pound be ground into fish meal to feed […]
Money fish rule
Once more trawlers in the Bering Sea have gone to court in an effort to stop the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) from billing them for the costs of managing Chinook […]
Curtain of death
Two years after a bitter and unproductive fight to remove what are sometimes called the “curtains of death” in Alaska’s Cook Inlet, a new study is suggesting the answer to […]
