With Canadian and Pacific Northwest scientists readying a claim to yet more evidence of hatchery pink salmon overgrazing the pastures of the North Pacific Ocean to the detriment of Chinook and other […]
Ecosystem chaos
Salmon kill salmon?
The mystery surrounding the shrinking size and number of Alaska king salmon might be as simple as this: The biggest, most highly prized salmon in the north simply can’t compete with the […]
Don’t eat the salmon
Apparently thanks to a California man who pulled a 5-foot, 6-inch tapeworm out of his ass in January, Facebook was this week blowing up with a visually distasteful warning not to eat […]
The late arrivals
The rains came to Alaska’s Matanuska-Susitna rivers valley over the weekend. The water in local creeks and rivers rose. And the coho salmon, notorious for sprinting from the oceans to the mountains […]
Endless fish fight
Commercial salmon gillnetters were back at work in Cook Inlet on Wednesday as state fishery managers tried to stem the flow of sockeye salmon into the Kenai River in keeping with the […]
Yes, no, maybe
Only days after over-seeing the deaths of nearly 90,000 Upper Cook Inlet coho salmon in two commercial drift gillnet openings in the belief the coho run was late and strong, fishery […]
Where are the coho?
The bad news came in triplicate for Little Susitna River guide Andy Couch on Friday. First there was the daily coho salmon enumeration from the Little Su weir. The 39 fish […]
Mat-Su coho struggle
No sooner does one Cook Inlet salmon crisis pass than another erupts. This times its coho salmon in the spotlight. Little Susitna River guide Andy Couch said Wednesday he felt like he’d […]
Salmon sell out
News commentary All Alaskans should be embarrassed by what we have allowed to become of the salmon of Cook Inlet. Suffice to say, this is our Columbia River disaster. All that is missing […]
Netting Alaska’s spoils
The most fought-over commodity in Cook Inlet/Craig Medred photo Fifty years ago with runs of most Cook Inlet salmon failing, every fisherman – commercial, subsistence and sport – paid the price of […]
