Pink prices could fall to 10 cents a pound What began as a bad Alaska salmon season has suddenly gotten a whole lot worse. And no, it isn’t about “Otis” or any […]
Salmon disaster
New ‘fishermen’
Hatcheries harvesting ever more salmon The long-ago fears of the late Wayne Alex, a commercial purse seine fishermen in Alaska’s Panhandle, have now come true nearly 600 miles to the north in […]
Big ripples
The Pebble Mine saga continues In a move sure to anger Lower 48 environmentalists and much of Alaska, Gov. Mike Dunleavy has decided to sue the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over […]
Market dictates
The history behind rock-bottom salmon prices With Bristol Bay fishermen fuming over the rock-bottom low prices being paid for wild sockeye salmon this year, maybe it is time to revisit how […]
Bristol Bay bust
Bristol Bay salmon prices hit rock bottom
Goodbye ‘bou?
Lack of caribou cancels subsistence hunt The big problem with Alaska’s so-called “subsistence” hunting law is today being clearly illustrated in the Nelchina Basin 100 miles northeast of the 49th state’s largest […]
Plummeting value
Humpysque prices for sockeye salmon A perfect economic storm is brewing across Alaska as the 49th state heads into the heart of the brief and frenzied season that defines its commercial […]
The narrative
A lesson in how news is spun The Alaska Department of Fish and Game made a huge mistake in the wake of the aerial execution of nearly 100 brown/grizzly bears and a […]
Eating more fish
But little of it appears to be Alaskan The National Seafood Institute has proclaimed 2021 a “Record Year for Seafood Consumption” in the U.S., which would at first blush look like great […]
The magic solution
Calls for hatcheries to ‘save’ Yukon salmon “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and […]
