Alaska’s ‘Wild’ Product of Asia A news analysis With President Donald Trump reguarly ordering or threatening new tariffs to balance the country’s nearly $300 billion trade deficit with China, the Alaska Seafood […]
Cheap labor
China wins
The global humpy leader Scientists can argue about the ecological consequences of Alaska salmon hatcheries helping to flood the North Pacific Ocean with pink salmon, but what appears clear now is that […]
Boxed in
Conventional thinking strands AK North Slope gas The second election of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States offers Alaska an opportunity to use its stranded, North Slope natural gas […]
All the risks
None of the rewards Russian President Vladimir Putin, the wannabe King of the Arctic, is falling short on his vision of turning his country’s Northern Sea Route into a legitimate alternative to […]
Growing danger
The little-noticed tankers off AK’s coast One line in the middle of qCapitan’s latest report on Russian Arctic shipping ought to send a chill down the spines of Alaskans. “In addition to […]
Gone processing
The price of progress? As you read this, work is continuing in Bellingham, Wash., on a $40-million, federally financed, salmon-processing barge some think could revolutionize the Alaska fishing business. By spring, the […]
For sale
Alaska seafood processing fallout begins Alaska’s largest seafood processor – Seattle-based Trident Seafoods – has dropped another bomb on the 49th state fishing industry. In the wake of a November warning that […]
A business in crisis
Alaska salmon processors paint a grim picture After years of choking on record runs of Bristol Bay sockeye salmon and near-record runs of heavily farmed, low-value pink salmon, the Alaska fishing industry […]
O’Canada
SOMEWHERE IN SOUTHEAST SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA – On the road south and east from the oil and gas boom cities of Fort Nelson, British Columbia, and Grande Prairie, Alberta, into […]
The neighbors
Russia’s Arctic development rolls on As Americans, Alaskans among them, continue to ponder the economic future of the U.S. Arctic, the Russians are charging full speed ahead into what they see as […]
