The Alaska Department of Fish and Game believes global warming will continue to smile on the sockeye salmon of Bristol Bay and has forecast another huge return of the fish for next […]
Warming winners
Saved by truck
An Anchorage man who reported intentionally running his truck into a moose is being praised as a hero by his neighbors on social media. They have good reason if the story told […]
Fair shares
Commercial fishermen, who the state fought to keep working this summer even as COVID-19 shut down many other businesses, are now pressuring the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to reduce the […]
Missing salmon
Alaska’s commercial fishing season has come to an end with a smallish – by decadal average standards – statewide harvest of about 114 million salmon looking almost identical to the smallish statewide […]
Bear doctoring
What killing a bruin has to do with getting things done for your state in the U.S. Senate is hard to say, but candidate Dr. Al Gross is campaigning as “Bear Doctor” […]
Warming winner
The Alaska Arctic appears to be home to global-warming winner familiar to almost everyone in the 49th state: pink salmon. Impossible to miss for those fishing in the “Top of the World” […]
The humpy swarm
As Alaska putters toward what looks to be its worst commercial salmon season in almost 40 years – despite another banner season for sockeye in Bristol Bay – Cook Inlet streams […]
Deprivation diet?
Alaska’s decades-long bonanza of pink salmon has now been fingered as one of the likely suspects in a roller-coaster decline in size of four other species of Pacific salmon. After examining a […]
The divide
Alaska officials are suing the federal government to protect a majority of hunters from a minority of hunters in the state with the whackiest public lands issues in the country. The minority […]
Heated oversight
Scientists searching for evidence of climate change in Alaska’s Cook Inlet say they’ve found the fingerprints of global warming in the falling numbers of prized Chinook salmon, but admit they chose to […]
