A New York Times reporting error reached all the way to Alaska last week where Israel Payton, a member of the Alaska Board of Fisheries, had to explain what wasn’t. The case […]
NYT nyet
Win for AK hatcheries
Before a room packed with commercial fishermen angry they might lose profits from catches of hatchery salmon, the Alaska Board of Fisheries on Tuesday turned back a proposal to cap or […]
Fishing for votes
News analysis Alaska Gov. Bill Walker got most of the Hatfields and some of the McCoys of Cook Inlet salmon fishing together for a sitdown in Anchorage on Friday, and Commissioner of […]
New gas hurdles
By LARRY PERSILY Special to craigmedred.news With just four months to go before the scheduled release of the Alaska LNG project’s draft environmental impact statement, federal regulators have addressed almost 200 additional […]
Bad to worse
More bad news for Alaska’s third-largest industry is coming out of Europe. Dutch-based banking and financial powerhouse Rabobank, a global leader in food and agriculture financing, says the aquaculture business has grown by […]
State of stagnation
Famous as the state of economic boom and bust, Alaska appears to have reached something of a new, no-growth stability as its population ages in place, and its economy begins to diversify […]
New AK record
An Alaska state record largemouth bass was pulled from Anchorage’s Sand Lake over the Labor Day weekend. It measured about seven and a half inches and was a first-ever catch in the […]
A girl on a boat
UPDATE: The Port of Anchorage says that one of its employees was at the tiller of the boat on which KTUU’s Rebecca Palsha was filming and no whales were disturbed. Port spokesman […]
Oscillations
As Alaska’s 2018 commercial salmon season slides toward its end, 2018 is looking a lot like 2016 – the year of the big bust after the bonanza of 2015. Twenty-fifteen was the […]
Salmon accounting
A news analysis UPDATE: This story was edited on Aug. 7 to reflect the loss the city of Kenai took on the dipnet fishery, a historic city moneymaker, and to update in-river […]
