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 […]
Failing success
AK Salmon 2025, modern history I
The roots of disaster Part 1 of a 4-part series Thirty-five years ago, Alaska politicians and the politically powerful commercial fishing interests that had long punched above their economic weight in the […]
Journalism’s failure
The knowledge gap Many in these unUnited States today believe the big problem with American journalism is political bias, and that is a problem. But the even bigger problem is laziness, ignorance […]
Cook Inlet’s Everwar
Apparently unaware of why the Alaska Boards of Fisheries and Game were created and clueless as to the biological significance of the commercial salmon fishery in Upper Cook Inlet, Rep. Sarah Vance, […]
The masquerade
Only in Alaska where black is white With fisheries scientists now describing expanding populations of pink salmon as ecosystem disrupters across nearly the whole of the Northern Hemisphere, it is time someone […]
Accepting reality
Ocean pastures are not limitless An Oregon State University professor studying the levels of dissolved oxygen in the offshore waters of the Pacific Northwest has described almost perfectly what Alaska’s free-range salmon […]
Gone processing
The price of progress? As you read this, work is continuing in Bellingham, Wash., on a $40-million, federally financed, salmon-processing barge some think could revolutionize the Alaska fishing business. By spring, the […]
A business in crisis
Alaska salmon processors paint a grim picture After years of choking on record runs of Bristol Bay sockeye salmon and near-record runs of heavily farmed, low-value pink salmon, the Alaska fishing industry […]
The indictment
Pink salmon disrupt ocean ecosystem Part II of II Scientists who stepped back from looking at the trees to study the forest that is the vast expanse of the North Pacific Ocean […]
Fish math
A group of international fisheries scientists is now pointing out the simple, ecological reality of mathematics long ignored by Alaska salmon managers: addition matters as well as subtraction. With the […]
