And the ocean taketh away The 2026 commercial salmon season in Alaska is not yet over, but it can already be called a full-on disaster in Prince William Sound, the heartland of […]
The ocean giveth
Alaska’s mafia
Has a new don wannabe What a way to end the week. No sooner had I finished a commentary on the ‘Big Lie’ propaganda suggesting that the 49 sockeye killed as trawl […]
Nature’s whims
Alaska hatchery salmon gone missing The grand vision of an Alaska commercial salmon fishing industry stabilized by the hand of man producing fish in hatcheries and sending them to graze the sea […]
Brewing disaster
Sound salmon fisheries collapsing With the normal peak of Prince William Sound salmon returns now in the rearview mirror, the ocean-farming heartland of the 49th state is marching toward a commercial fishery […]
Winners & losers
Yukon king salmon rebound beginning? After a couple of years with cooler waters in the Bering Sea, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is reporting a Yukon River return of Chinook […]
Growing awareness
Trade-offs at sea? A mainstream media long stuck on the idea that dams and global warming were the only problems facing the fabled Chinook salmon of the Pacific Northwest seems to finally […]
Cheap labor
Alaska’s ‘Wild’ Product of Asia A news analysis With President Donald Trump reguarly ordering or threatening new tariffs to balance the country’s nearly $300 billion trade deficit with China, the Alaska Seafood […]
China wins
The global humpy leader Scientists can argue about the ecological consequences of Alaska salmon hatcheries helping to flood the North Pacific Ocean with pink salmon, but what appears clear now is that […]
Humpies invade
The all-conquering pink salmon While Alaska fisheries biologists have been fretting about whether pink salmon straying from the state’s ocean-farming ranches could damage the genetics of wild, 49th-state pinks, the feral progeny […]
Killing chums
An Alaska fisheries management failure Seemingly without thought, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has confessed to mismanaging wild chum salmon in Southeast Alaska to the benefit of private hatcheries run […]
