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 […]
Fading fish
The warrior
Fighting for Alaska wild salmon Now 82 years old, Virgil Umpenhour has been at war with Alaska’s commercial salmon farmers, or ranchers as they prefer to call themselves, for most of his […]
Ever fewer
News analysis As Alaskans turn their attention to yet another forecast of a low return of sockeye salmon to the waters lapping at the shore of the state’s largest city, Canadian scientists […]
Bell curves
The bell curve that no Alaskans wanted to see flatten started late, peaked early and is now falling fast as state fishery managers begin to worry about whether they will be able […]
Climate change kills?
Global warming portends problems for Alaska going forward, but a British archaeologist is suggesting that the opposite might have made life hell in a part of the state in the distant past. […]
Humpy invasion
While West Coast Americans – Alaskans among them – worry and fret about farmed Atlantic salmon escaping to invade the Pacific Ocean despite decades of failed stocking efforts aimed at helping them do […]
Chitina shutdown
The bad news thousands of Alaskans dipnetters expected to hear is now official: The Copper River personal-use fishery near Chitina will officially close at midnight Sunday and remain closed indefinitely. “I […]
Deadly little fish
With a growing number of Alaskans pushing the state Board of Fisheries to take a closer look at 49th state salmon ranching, scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Australia […]
Hungry mouths
Fearful that Cook Inlet is increasingly coming under the influence of the big, pink-salmon ranch that is Alaska’s Prince William Sound, nine outdoor groups have banded together to ask the Alaska Board […]
