Commentary Norway’s version of the Alaska Permanent Fund hit the $1 trillion mark this week. That’s $1,000 billion, or about 16 times the $61.2 billion the state of Alaska is […]
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Outdoors is big biz
SOLDOTNA – REI, Cabela’s and Bass Pro Shops were busy in Anchorage on Wednesday, and the dipnets were still pouring out the doors of Costco when the Outdoor Industry Association released a […]
Net fisheries win
Commercial fishermen looking to cast their salmon-snagging gillnets wider in Cook Inlet appear to have won the hearts of the members of the Alaska Board of Fisheries. The state regulatory authority was […]
Disorderly and unsafe
The winter meeting of the Alaska Board of Fisheries is months away but already the weirdness has begun. At a work session in Kenai-Soldotna this week, the board spent some time kicking […]
Catch, release, kill fish
Part 1 of 2 If you believe the science, somewhere around 4.8 million sockeye salmon were likely caught and released in Bristol Bay last year and half them died before spawning. That’s […]
The dying Kenai kings
UPDATED – May 20, 2016 Seven out of every 11 Kenai River late-run king salmon killed last year died in gillnets as what was once the most valuable sport fishery in Alaska […]
Better kept quiet
With the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race caught in a wrongheaded but understandable bit of a cover-up this week because the reality of Alaska can be just a little too real, more […]
The magical $73 salmon
Alaska oil prices have now crept so low it is being reported a commercially caught king salmon is worth more than a barrel of crude oil, but 49th-state fishermen can only dream […]
