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 […]
The warrior
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 […]
A pink flood
Hatchery tax to fund study of ocean takeover? In what might be one of the bluntest, to-the-point abstracts every to top a fisheries science paper, a pair of Canadian scientists and a […]
Choked streams
Hatchery salmon smothering wild salmon? Scientists studying warming in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest have stumbled on a new way in which the state’s massive aquaculture industry could be harming wild salmon: hypoxia. […]
Shrinking salmon
The hidden costs of Alaska hatcheries Commercial salmon fishermen all along the West Coast of North America may be paying a serious price in lost poundage to help put dollars in the […]
New ocean order
The salmon fishing industries of Alaska and Russia look poised to continue as the big beneficiaries of global warming, the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAC) has been told, with Canada and […]
Lost in the trees
Mainstream East Coast media have finally discovered that scientists from around the Pacific Rim are trying to sort out the secret lives of salmon at sea in hopes of unraveling what has […]
Paint it pink
The North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC) this week posed a question that has been on the minds of some fisheries scientists for years now: “Are There Too Many Salmon in the […]
The disrupters?
A trio of North America’s top salmon scientists has underlined their belief a 2020 fishery collapse in the Pacific Ocean was sparked by a deadly combination of warm water and over-abundance of […]
The big bust
The 2020 decline in North Pacific salmon numbers appears to have been the greatest in recorded history, according to a trio of scientists who’ve spent much of their careers studying the […]
