The sales pitch for a state bailout A news analysis The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute is out with its latest propaganda, and the Alaska legacy media is parroting the pitch as representative […]
Grand illusion
Feeding the bears
Oregon State University researchers working in Alaska’s Bristol Bay have now documented what has been obvious to many bear biologists for a long time: small salmon streams are important to big bruins. […]
Tech threat grows
News analysis Nothing but bad news for Alaska commercial fisheries and one of Alaska’s historically largest employers is contained in a new report from Rabobank – the huge, Dutch financial company the […]
Changing faces
New Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s appointments to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game are rocking a state agency unaccustomed to dramatic change. Gone is affable Commissioner of Fish and Game Sam […]
Tangled in conflict
Alaska Board of Fisheries member Fritz Johnson, a commercial fisherman from Bristol Bay, has resigned his seat on the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) removing one of several possible conflicts of interest […]
The hatchery case
With winter closing fast on Alaska and discussions on the possible impacts of hatchery fish on wild salmon expected to continue into the season when many have little to do but talk, […]
Alaska’s shrinking salmon
The season of the salmon in the waters surrounding Alaska’s urban core has opened with a warning that all might not be well in the North Pacific Ocean. Once again, as was […]
