Scientific guestimating For years now, Cook Inlet commercial fishermen have been trooping before the Alaska Board of Fisheries to complain that the state is undermining the productivity of the Kenai River, the […]
Dreaded over-escapement
Going down
Oh-oh moment for Alaska salmon season With the Alaska commercial salmon season now more than 80 percent done with a harvest lagging behind the pre-season forecast, as was the case last year, […]
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 […]
Kings rising
Kenai River Chinook offer some hope For the first time in five years, there appears the possibility that the return of Chinook salmon to the Kenai River – an Alaska waterway once […]
Good or not so?
Nobody yet knows After decades of ignoring the problem of deadly Chinook salmon bycatch in the Cook Inlet set gillnet fishery, commercial fishermen are now pushing for a whole-scale shift to seemingly […]
Gone kings
Will fabled Kenai kings ever return? Before the waters of the North Pacific Ocean warmed and its population of pink salmon exploded, Alaska’s Kenai River was home to a run of giant […]
Cook Inlet’s Everwar
Apparently unaware of why the Alaska Boards of Fisheries and Game were created and clueless as to the biological significance of the commercial salmon fishery in Upper Cook Inlet, Rep. Sarah Vance, […]
Disaster brewing
“The Karluk River Chinook salmon escapement through July 25 is 66 fish which is the lowest on record.” “The Ayakulik River Chinook salmon escapement through July 25 is 327 fish, which is […]
It begins
Newest dipnetters can sell their fish Dipnetting for Cook Inlet salmon, which usually doesn’t get underway until the opening of the Kasilof River tomorrow, jumped off to an earlier start last week, […]
Big wild life
Anchorage businessman was a true Alaska success story Bob Penney, a true Alaska character loved by some and hated by others, is dead at the age of 90. Cook Inlet commercial fishermen […]
