Alaska salmon farming ripoff With the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association (CIAA) now nearly $20 million in debt to the state of Alaska with no signs of future solvency, the time has come […]
Who benefits?
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 […]
Reality bites
Alaska’s struggling salmon business While the North Pacific Ocean appears to have hit peak salmon – possibly to the detriment of the most prized and valued of salmon species – the […]
A pink flood
Hatchery tax to fund study of ocean takeover? In what might be one of the bluntest, to-the-point abstracts every to top a fisheries science paper, a pair of Canadian scientists and a […]
Predictable crash
The up-down cycle of AK salmon Alaska’s ironic commercial salmon fishing business appears to be inching ever closer to a replay of the great crash of 2020. The catch that year […]
Accepting reality
Ocean pastures are not limitless An Oregon State University professor studying the levels of dissolved oxygen in the offshore waters of the Pacific Northwest has described almost perfectly what Alaska’s free-range salmon […]
Fall of the kings
Are Alaska salmon farmers to blame? A news analysis The Seattle-area-based Wild Fish Conservancy has dropped a bomb on the Alaska commercial fishing industry with a petition to the federal government demanding […]
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 […]
The indictment
Pink salmon disrupt ocean ecosystem Part II of II Scientists who stepped back from looking at the trees to study the forest that is the vast expanse of the North Pacific Ocean […]
Sea change
Major study links pink salmon and ocean chaos Part I of II Pink salmon and the hatcheries helped boost their numbers to never-before-seen highs were Thursday singled out for disrupting the ecosystem […]
