Trade-offs at sea? A mainstream media long stuck on the idea that dams and global warming were the only problems facing the fabled Chinook salmon of the Pacific Northwest seems to finally […]
Growing awareness
Cheap labor
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 […]
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 […]
Humpies invade
The all-conquering pink salmon While Alaska fisheries biologists have been fretting about whether pink salmon straying from the state’s ocean-farming ranches could damage the genetics of wild, 49th-state pinks, the feral progeny […]
Drug free?
Salmon farmers make big claim Nova-Austral, a Chilean salmon farming business, is claiming to now be raising antibiotic-free salmon. If the claim is true, it would put the company one up on […]
War on farmers
Is Alaska next? As if the Alaska commercial salmon fishing business didn’t already have enough problems, now some Michelin chefs have the knives out. WildFish, a charity based in the United Kingdom, […]
Trawling 4 love
Troubled image of AK largest fishery Under fire for the incidental harvest of salmon, which some claim has devastated Chinook returns to the Kuskokwim and Yukon rivers despite any scientific evidence to […]
Going down
Oh-oh moment for Alaska salmon season With the Alaska commercial salmon season now more than 80 percent done with a harvest lagging behind the pre-season forecast, as was the case last year, […]
Kings rising
Kenai River Chinook offer some hope For the first time in five years, there appears the possibility that the return of Chinook salmon to the Kenai River – an Alaska waterway once […]
Trainwreck fishery
Tough times continue for Alaska fishing industry As the commercial salmon fishing in Alaska heads into the heart of its summer season, the 49th state would appear to be reliving the […]
