More potentially bad news for the Alaska commercial salmon fishing industry was Monday emanating from, of all places, South Florida. On the site of an old tomato farm near a community called […]
Tasty salmon, Florida fresh
Fighting the tide
News analysis After three years of work, a University of Alaska Fairbanks study of the state’s commercial fishing industry has reached one conclusion nobody in the 49th state wants to talk about […]
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 […]
Bad news salmon
On the day before Juneau, Alaska chef Lionel Uddipa was crowned the King of American Seafood at the Great American Seafood Cook-off in New Orleans on the Gulf of Mexico, the worst of […]
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 […]
King fishery closed
Fisheries managers in Southcentral Alaska might still be wrestling with what to do about a weak return of king salmon to the Copper River, but their counterparts in Southeast Alaska have acted […]
Copper River disaster
This is a developing story No one seems to have any idea what sort of astronomical price a rare and iconic Copper River king salmon from Alaska might demand when the commercial […]
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 […]
Dipnet bummer days
Spoiled by years of good fishing at the mouth of the Kenai River in mid-July, Alaska personal-use dipnetters seem primed to explode at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game for its […]
The magical $73 salmon
Alaska oil prices have now crept so low it is being reported a commercially caught king salmon is worth more than a barrel of crude oil, but 49th-state fishermen can only dream […]
