Competition for cheap protein Russia looks to have once again beaten Alaska in the annual battle to produce the maximum volume of the lowest-value salmon in the Pacific Ocean, and this despite […]
Russia wins
Falling prices
Copper River salmon prices nosedive After Alaska’s 2023 commercial salmon season from hell, the 2024 season is underway with more whimper than bang. Gone is the traditional early season show that […]
Pink problems
Researchers find a smoking gun The strongest evidence to date that Alaska’s industrial-scale, open-ocean farming of pink salmon has altered the North Pacific ecosystem came Thursday in a study published in the […]
Fall of the kings
Are Alaska salmon farmers to blame? A news analysis The Seattle-area-based Wild Fish Conservancy has dropped a bomb on the Alaska commercial fishing industry with a petition to the federal government demanding […]
Blinders on
The problem with agendas With Alaska reporting yet another season in which the harvest of salmon topped 200 million fish, the Associated Press has somehow concluded “climate change” is plaguing the state’s […]
The run is on
Will the beginning be the best of the season? The 49th seafood business, a self-proclaimed “cornerstone of Alaska’s economy,” has kicked off the salmon season with a healthy though less than great […]
Shrinking salmon
The hidden costs of Alaska hatcheries Commercial salmon fishermen all along the West Coast of North America may be paying a serious price in lost poundage to help put dollars in the […]
Ultimate fish war
What the federal government has against guys like Oscar Evon is hard to figure out, but it must be something. Who you ask is Oscar Evon? Evon is the director of regional […]
Copper River bust
No sooner had the Alaska commercial salmon season begun amid reports of sky-high prices for Copper River kings and sockeyes than fishing was put on hold for lack of fish. Gillnetters were […]
Messing with nature
Scientists looking for evidence that climate-caused ocean acidification is harming North Pacific salmon have instead discovered something else – a threat to wild fish from Alaska’s massive, commercial-fishermen-funded, ocean-farming business. “Using 60 […]
