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 […]
Awash in fish
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 […]
Trainwreck fishery
Tough times continue for Alaska fishing industry As the commercial salmon fishing in Alaska heads into the heart of its summer season, the 49th state would appear to be reliving the […]
Fading fish
Feds sued to protect king salmon With the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in chaos amid a Trump administration reorganization, the Wild Fish Conservancy has decided it is time to […]
Costly gamble
Plan to prop up AK commercial fishing Alaska’s Five-Year Plan for the Production of State Salmon is out with a scheme for the mother of all bailouts of the commercial salmon fishing […]
Victim of pinks
Study blames Alaska pink salmon for Idaho Chinook losses Forty three years after a top official of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game publicly and clearly revealed a plan to take […]
Bad to worse
Worst salmon season in 20 years The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has finally released its summary of the 2024 commercial salmon fishing season in the 49th state, and the only […]
Big trouble
Salmon processors too poor to pay sick leave Once the economic engine of the Alaska Territory, the commercial fishing industry in the 49th state is now in such dire straits that it […]
Crash of ’24
Another big bust in the Pacific salmon fisheries For the second time in four years, a huge decline in North Pacific salmon numbers is being reported in the wake of a big […]
A pink flood
Hatchery tax to fund study of ocean takeover? In what might be one of the bluntest, to-the-point abstracts every to top a fisheries science paper, a pair of Canadian scientists and a […]
