Hatchery pink salmon from Prince William Sound are now flooding Cook Inlet streams at levels almost 35-times greater that what the Alaska Department of Fish and Game established in 2010 as the […]
Humpy war
Salmon rising
UPDATE: This story has been updated with the Board of Fisheries meeting July 17 to discuss whether sockeye salmon runs are being reduced by the large production of hatchery pink salmon in […]
Deadly little fish
With a growing number of Alaskans pushing the state Board of Fisheries to take a closer look at 49th state salmon ranching, scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Australia […]
The feds arrive
Both economically and biologically, the commercial fisheries of Alaska’s Cook Inlet are imprecise and archaic. And now come federal regulators to try to apply Information Age precision to this chaos of […]
Oil spill spared fish
Almost 30 years after the oil tanker Exxon Valdez hit Bligh Reef and smeared Prince William Sound with more than 11 million gallons of Alaska crude oil, a team of state and […]
AK hatchery pollution
“It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.” […]
