A News Analysis If Alaska commercial fishing interests think they now have problems with tariffs stemming from the simmering trade war with China, they best not look too far into the future […]
Future fish
Humpy invasion
While West Coast Americans – Alaskans among them – worry and fret about farmed Atlantic salmon escaping to invade the Pacific Ocean despite decades of failed stocking efforts aimed at helping them do […]
A new Cook Inlet
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council, a federal entity dominated by commercial fishing interests, has named a Cook Inlet salmon committee to establish policy for management of fish in federal waters within […]
AK Frankenfish?
The sockeye salmon dipnetted from the mouth of the Kenai River two years ago was but an oddity until it wasn’t. Deformed fish seldom survive in the wild, but somehow this one […]
Alaska’s losing battle
News analysis Bristol Bay – Alaska’s highest profile salmon fishery – had a banner year, and yet everywhere in the global market Alaska salmon fisheries look to be in more and more […]
Hatchery plan stalls
A Homer, Alaska area salmon hatchery caught operating without a federal Clean Water Act permit won’t be moving its operations to Kachemak Bay anytime soon. The private, non-profit Cook Inlet Aquaculture […]
