Outside help AK Dems don’t need What, in God’s name, are Democrats thinking in trying to tie Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, to trawler bycatch that has absolutely nothing to do with the […]
The big lie
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 […]
Another bailout
Cash rewards for bad behavior For decades, commercial setnet fishermen working the beaches on the east side of Cook Inlet fought efforts to alter their fishery to reduce the bycatch of king […]
Drug free?
Salmon farmers make big claim Nova-Austral, a Chilean salmon farming business, is claiming to now be raising antibiotic-free salmon. If the claim is true, it would put the company one up on […]
Fading fish
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Losers vs winners
King salmon going down as pinks go up An eight- to nine-fold increase in Prince William Sound pink salmon now credited to the open-ocean farming of the North Pacific Ocean has […]
Gone forever?
Alaska’s incredibly shrunken salmon Why is it that an Alaska Congressional delegation that almost never objects to federal dollars flowing north is in a tizzy about a National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]
