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, […]
The salmon yo-yo
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 […]
Vanishing kings
A controversial study pointing to the ocean – and not dams or other freshwater issues – as responsible for a 65 percent decline in the productivity of Chinook salmon along the North […]
Warming winner
The Alaska Arctic appears to be home to global-warming winner familiar to almost everyone in the 49th state: pink salmon. Impossible to miss for those fishing in the “Top of the World” […]
Secret lives
A draft of the latest look into the secret lives of Pacific salmon is now in print, and it echoes the key finding of the 2019 voyage of the R/V Professor Kaganovsky […]
Bell curves
The bell curve that no Alaskans wanted to see flatten started late, peaked early and is now falling fast as state fishery managers begin to worry about whether they will be able […]
