AK salmon ranch business failing The Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association (CIAA) – the Weyerhaeuser of the Alaska salmon ranching scene – is poised to post huge financial losses again this year. A […]
More losses
Sockeye boom
Big question is why After years of mainly sitting on Cook Inlet beaches, commercial setnet salmon fishermen were back on the water this week as returning sockeye offered a lesson in how […]
Zero-sum fishery
Are wild salmon the ultimate loser? A news analysis Alaska salmon farmers who annually turn almost 2 billion hatchery fish loose to feed on the pastures of the North Pacific Ocean […]
Crash of ’24
Another big bust in the Pacific salmon fisheries For the second time in four years, a huge decline in North Pacific salmon numbers is being reported in the wake of a big […]
Bad messaging
Alaska salmon, the poor folks’ seafood! Why, oh why, do the political leaders of the 49th state want to portray Alaska salmon as a commodity the market doesn’t want? First it was […]
Wild fish aid
Fairbanks group wants hatchery rollback With ever more attention turning to the question of how much the boom in pink salmon in the North Pacific Ocean is harming more valuable salmon, the […]
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 […]
Future fish
A News Analysis If Alaska commercial fishing interests think they now have problems with tariffs stemming from the simmering trade war with China, they best not look too far into the future […]
AK Frankenfish?
The sockeye salmon dipnetted from the mouth of the Kenai River two years ago was but an oddity until it wasn’t. Deformed fish seldom survive in the wild, but somehow this one […]
