The third rock from the sun in the Milky Way galaxy is a planet in a constant state of change inhabited by lifeforms that either adapt or perish. Yes, we’re talking here […]
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Farmers winning
As Alaska’s short-lived salmon season creeps toward a harvest of 200,000 tons – led by low-value pink salmon – Norwegian farmers are reporting sales of more than 100,000 tonnes of farmed […]
No fishing
Saving even a handful of king salmon trumps letting surplus sockeye salmon escape into the Kenai and Kasilof rivers the Alaska Board of Fisheries ruled today. The decision came in response to […]
They’re back
After the great Pacific salmon crash of 2020 and early fears about the Alaska salmon run of 2021, the 49th state looks to be easing into another season of Piscean […]
The big bust
The 2020 decline in North Pacific salmon numbers appears to have been the greatest in recorded history, according to a trio of scientists who’ve spent much of their careers studying the […]
Sky-high prices
The Alaska commercial fishing season kicked off in earnest this week with the tide rising. Not the tide of the ocean, mind you, but the tide of the global economy which helped […]
Threatened salmon?
Despite the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s 2021 forecast of another monster catch of 190 million salmon – more than twice the state’s average annual harvest in the 20th Century […]
Ever fewer
News analysis As Alaskans turn their attention to yet another forecast of a low return of sockeye salmon to the waters lapping at the shore of the state’s largest city, Canadian scientists […]
New world order
As commercial fishermen in Alaska’s Cook Inlet continue to beat the dead horse of “maximum sustained yield (MSY),” the world of seafood is evolving at the speed of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. China’s […]
Knuckleball weather
Siberia was colder than hell to start the week. Rain was falling in Anchorage, heavily at times, on Monday. And Judah Cohen, the guru of the polar vortex, says it all makes […]
