For the fourth time this decade – but only the eighth time in the 134-year history of Alaska commercial salmon harvests – the catch has topped 200 million. The Alaska Department of […]
Unofficially official
Salmon bounty
For the fourth time in the last six years, Alaska is on the verge of recording a season-long salmon harvest at or above 200 million fish. Harvests of this size have happened […]
Patagonia attacks
“Sled Dogs” meet “Artifishal,” the latest film seeking to document the evil humans do in the quest for profit, glory and/or the noble aim of making the world better. “Sleds Dogs” was […]
Getting spun
Imagine reading this oped: “Alaska oil helps enrich Alaskans and power the world “In late March of this year, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources issued its forecast for 2019 statewide oil […]
Fishing fair
Unhappy about state efforts to protect a struggling run of Kenai River king salmon, Cook Inlet commercial fishermen are headed into court today to ask a judge to order the Alaska Department […]
Cooked king salmon
This story was updated on July 16, 2019 An Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist on the Kuskokwim River is suggesting water temperatures got so high during the state’s July heat […]
Toothed invaders
Add muskellunge to the list of south-coastal Alaska’s modern-era, climate-change invaders. First it was northern pike, then largemouth bass, and now the Monsters of the Midwest. Historically, the largest of the pike […]
Sockeye rising
News analysis As the sockeye salmon return to the rivers of Cook Inlet and the famed late-run king salmon nose into the Kenai River, there are reasons for fishermen of all persuasions […]
Hotlaska
An unusually warm June in Alaska has glaciers melting so fast that they have in places destroyed the salmon fishing. Mark Hem in the tiny community of Chitina in the east-central part […]
Fading kings
The Alaska fishing season has only just begun, but early indications are the Cook Inlet king salmon collapse is developing just about as forecast by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. […]
