Former Olympic cyclist Lindsey Gauld from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada was near 90 miles north on the Iditarod Trail at Skwentna today trying to set a record to be admired in these days […]
Never too old
Searching for answers
Nudged into action by near unbelievable early findings of privately funded probes into the secret lives of Pacific salmon, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced it is this […]
Paint it pink
The North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC) this week posed a question that has been on the minds of some fisheries scientists for years now: “Are There Too Many Salmon in the […]
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 […]
The salmon yo-yo
Once more the pendulum of ocean productivity has swung back to bless Alaska commercial salmon fishermen and processors – or at least some of them – with another season of bounty, […]
Gone silent
BEAVER CREEK, Yukon Territory, Canada – At 8 a.m. Tuesday, this once summer-busy chokepoint on the Alaska Highway between Canada and the 49th state looked a lot like the ghost town of […]
Flawed rescue?
Scientists studying salmon in the estuaries at the mouth of the Columbia River are warning that hatcheries intended to boost runs of big Chinook may be doing the river’s wild fish […]
Going up
After more than two weeks on the beach, Cordova commercial fisherman are finally going to get another shot at a building run of Copper River salmon as what started out looking […]
Winning losers
The global pandemic is causing problems for salmon farmers, but that is far from good news for Alaska commercial fishermen, processors or the few 49th state communities with economies still heavily dependent […]
Disaster, take two?
UPDATED – Feb. 4, 2021 Canada appears to have now torpedoed a big chunk of the Alaska cruise business. A Canadian federal government order out of Ottawa today prohibits cruise vessels carrying […]
