Imagine reading this oped: “Alaska oil helps enrich Alaskans and power the world “In late March of this year, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources issued its forecast for 2019 statewide oil […]
Getting spun
Wanton waste?
A YouTube video of a kayaker paddling over a seabed buried in the carcasses of dead, unspawned pink salmon has the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association apologizing for a humpy massacre […]
Fishing fair
Unhappy about state efforts to protect a struggling run of Kenai River king salmon, Cook Inlet commercial fishermen are headed into court today to ask a judge to order the Alaska Department […]
Pie cutting
What would Alaskans think if the state dealt fiscally with the oil industry the way it does with the fishing industry? The question begs to be asked with the issuance of the […]
Best of days
KENAI RIVER – Sockeye salmon swarmed the mouth of Alaska’s most popular stream on Wednesday. Invisible beneath the surface of the muddy glacial water, they returned in such numbers a 10-year-old with […]
Hotlaska
An unusually warm June in Alaska has glaciers melting so fast that they have in places destroyed the salmon fishing. Mark Hem in the tiny community of Chitina in the east-central part […]
The fun begins
After dismal, back-to-back starts to Alaska’s season of the salmon in 2017 and 2018, there appear to be 2019 reasons for 49th state fishermen to be optimistic. Or should that be 25,523 […]
No growth
The Cook Inlet sport fishing business – its overall value marked by the opening of Cabela’s and Bass Pro Shops in Alaska’s largest city – remains a more than $800 million monster […]
Where goes Alaska
Alaskans are yet again fighting over who gets to catch the state’s limited supply of salmon, and the rest of the world is marching into the future not caring at all. […]
Our fish
Before an audience heavy with those who make their living from the sea, commercial fishermen and their supporters paraded before the Alaska Board of Fisheries on Saturday to testify as to where […]
