Alaska’s gas pipeline versus reality While delusional Alaska politicians cling to a now nearly 57-year-old fantasy of a natural gas pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to tidewater at Cook Inlet or the ice-free […]
20th Century Dreaming
Passions
The strange things we love With every passing year, the tidal marshes at the head of Turnagain Arm remind me more of how physically brutal that which I love to do so […]
Chasing phantoms
Why not make money instead? Some Alaska lawmakers are once again upset about reports of a few snowbirds who claim Alaska residency so they can come north each summer to catch loads […]
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 […]
Know-nothing journalism
Credibility dies in a field of little mistakes This is why it is painful to read what passes for news today: “Pink salmon get their nickname from their propensity […]
Massive fail
Ultimate fish war
What the federal government has against guys like Oscar Evon is hard to figure out, but it must be something. Who you ask is Oscar Evon? Evon is the director of regional […]
And the winners are….
One of the big conclusions to be drawn from the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute’s (ASMI) 2022 report on “The Economic Value of Alaska’s Seafood Industry” is that the people involved in fish […]
Danger fish
If reports coming from the Twentymile River approximately 45 miles east of Alaska’s largest city are to be believed, some six- to eight-inch long fish nearly killed a couple of people […]
Black gold decline
Sixty-three years ago, oil made Alaska. Now, as global markets retract, the time appears to be approaching to wonder if oil will unmake the 49th state. Ignore the millions of dollars being […]
