News analysis The bright spot for one of Alaska’s largest industries is that the prices paid to commercial fishermen for salmon look to be headed up this year and could keep trending […]
Good news bad
Future years
Norwegian salmon is flooding into China and the first, farmed Chinese salmon are due to hit the market to help grace the traditional Yee Sang prosperity salad as the lunisolar calendar officially welcomes […]
Salmon rising?
After a disastrous 2018, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is forecasting an increase in the number of salmon returning to the fabled Copper River this year, but there’s a […]
DOA king fishery
Chinook salmon runs in Upper Cook Inlet have taken a depressing turn back to the future with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game this week announcing the closure of May, June […]
The hatchery case
With winter closing fast on Alaska and discussions on the possible impacts of hatchery fish on wild salmon expected to continue into the season when many have little to do but talk, […]
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 […]
Adapt or die
Alaska needs to find ways to encourage innovation in the commercial fishing industry to head off declines in a struggling, one-time mainstay of the state economy, the former director of the University […]
Fish-o-nomics 101
Alaska leads the nation in unemployment, and fish processors in Bristol Bay are complaining they couldn’t find the workers necessary to head, gut and in some cases further process this […]
Golden fish
Update: This story was updated on May 21, 2017 to include new prices. In economic crisis, there is often opportunity. Commercial fishermen in Cordova, Alaska are at the moment worrying mightily […]
