As the Alaska commercial salmon fishery, once a mainstay of the 49th state economy, trundles along bound by decades-old rules designed to maximize inefficiency, the world keeps moving forward in the name […]
Relentless tech
Unhappy fishermen
KENAI – Friday found the beaches at the mouth of Alaska’s most fought-over river woefully short of dipnetters willing to help stop the possible “over-escapement” of sockeye salmon so feared by the […]
Missing fishermen
A flood of sockeye salmon was pushing the Kenai Peninsula’s Kasilof River rapidly toward the point of “over-escapement” on Tuesday with Upper Cook Inlet strangely devoid of commercial drift gillnet fishermen. […]
A troubled business
The size of the letters in the handwriting on the wall for the Alaska commercial salmon industry just keep getting bigger. Only days after the Bristol Bay sockeye harvest began with processors […]
The outlaw
After more than six years, one of the longest-running cases in the history of the Alaska Court system appears headed toward an end in a plea deal with the outlaw Roland Maw, […]
Tastes better
Every day it seems to become just a little more obvious that the future of the commercial salmon business is on land no matter what Alaskans might think about where the tastiest […]
The chicken farmer
News analysis One cannot help but feel sorry for commercial fisherman and former chicken farmer Russell Clark, one of the 735 people who hold permits to set net for salmon […]
Frankenfish arrive
With a pitch for salmon “free of antibiotics and ocean contaminants,” AquaBounty Technologies has announced it is soon to harvest for sale in the U.S. the first of its genetically engineered “Frankenfish,” […]
Owner state share?
The Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association (BBRSDA) is touting the Southwest Alaska fishery as worth more than $2.2 billion in 2019, but most of that wealth appears to leave the so-called […]
Evermore competition
News analysis “We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.” Microsoft founder Bill Gates […]
