As Alaska putters toward what looks to be its worst commercial salmon season in almost 40 years – despite another banner season for sockeye in Bristol Bay – Cook Inlet streams […]
The humpy swarm
Slim pickings
Commercial salmon fishermen in Alaska’s Bristol Bay are wrapping up another banner season while around the Gulf of Alaska harvests increasingly look on target to register as the worst in more than […]
Shades of ’18
Along the southern edge of the Bering Sea, fishermen in Alaska’s Bristol Bay are enjoying yet another banner year, but to the east there are hints of the disaster of 2018. The […]
Heated oversight
Scientists searching for evidence of climate change in Alaska’s Cook Inlet say they’ve found the fingerprints of global warming in the falling numbers of prized Chinook salmon, but admit they chose to […]
Bounty Bay
The sockeye salmon came late to Alaska’s Bristol Bay this year, but now look on track to exceed an Alaska Department of Fish and Game forecast that called for a harvest of […]
Troubled success
Once more, a salmon population that has established itself as the state’s most successful salmon rehabilitation effort is complicating fisheries management for Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologists charged with controlling […]
Bell curves
The bell curve that no Alaskans wanted to see flatten started late, peaked early and is now falling fast as state fishery managers begin to worry about whether they will be able […]
Wasted
Commercial fishermen in Alaska’s Cook Inlet are accusing the state of a decades-long conspiracy to drive them out of business by allowing too many salmon to enter the Kenai River. Their argument […]
Persistence
With the summer fishing season fast approaching in Alaska, the United Cook Inlet Drifters Association (UCIDA) was back in federal court this week demanding an immediate federal takeover of salmon management in […]
No truce
Not even the dreaded coronavirus COVID-19 seems able stop the fish wars that have long roiled the waters of Alaska’s Cook Inlet. Where some today see a pandemic spreading disease, death and […]
