The dangerous Big Wild Life Spring came late to Alaska’s largest city this year on the heels of a brutal winter, and now the wildlife have invaded. Actually, they were always here, […]
Wild Life Invasion
Who benefits?
Alaska salmon farming ripoff With the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association (CIAA) now nearly $20 million in debt to the state of Alaska with no signs of future solvency, the time has come […]
Failing success
The downside of salmon factories The time has come for Alaskans to accept the reality that a state-backed program began in the 1970 to use salmon hatcheries to farm the sea was […]
Cheap labor
Alaska’s ‘Wild’ Product of Asia A news analysis With President Donald Trump reguarly ordering or threatening new tariffs to balance the country’s nearly $300 billion trade deficit with China, the Alaska Seafood […]
Humpies invade
The all-conquering pink salmon While Alaska fisheries biologists have been fretting about whether pink salmon straying from the state’s ocean-farming ranches could damage the genetics of wild, 49th-state pinks, the feral progeny […]
Alaska Salmon 2025, modern history IV
Food for pets Part 4 of a 4-part series The road to hell on which the Alaska salmon fishing industry finds itself today was paved with good intentions that stretch all the […]
Liar, liar
And the questions unasked Long, long ago, an already old Alaska adventurer by the name of Dick Griffith met up with a group of Alaska Mountain Wilderness Classic racers standing on […]
Going down
Oh-oh moment for Alaska salmon season With the Alaska commercial salmon season now more than 80 percent done with a harvest lagging behind the pre-season forecast, as was the case last year, […]
Awash in fish
Cook Inlet sockeye above forecast When cyclones rip through the Asian tropics, do the sockeye salmon of Alaska’s Cook Inlet end up a beneficiary? One has to wonder with scientists studying climate […]
Coop bears
The problem with tasty chickens With a chicken-fancying grizzly bear sow and her cubs still roaming upscale Hillside neighborhoods above Alaska’s largest city, there is an increasing social-media call for the Alaska […]
