
The handwriting might be on the wall for the commercial gillnet fisheries targeting Columbia River salmon in the wake of a new study documenting how almost unbelievably clean it is to fish […]
The handwriting might be on the wall for the commercial gillnet fisheries targeting Columbia River salmon in the wake of a new study documenting how almost unbelievably clean it is to fish […]
The state of Alaska and the federal government appear headed toward yet another tussle over the long controversial and divisive issue of “subsistence,” but this time with a twist. Not only are […]
Alaska’s Kenai River is today a textbook example of the problems of managing mixed-stock fisheries right down to commercial set gillnetters protesting they catch comparatively few of the weak stock. The weak […]
After two years of dismal Chinook returns to the Kenai River, the state’s most famous salmon stream is this year on the way to setting a new record for dismal as […]
The global pandemic is causing problems for salmon farmers, but that is far from good news for Alaska commercial fishermen, processors or the few 49th state communities with economies still heavily dependent […]
Alaska’s largest newspaper is once again pushing – knowingly or unknowingly – the economic nonsense pitched by a mouthpiece for the state’s commercial fishing industry. “One Alaska king salmon is worth the […]
The season of the salmon in the year of the COVID is not starting off well in the 49th state. A dismal opening for the fabled Copper River salmon fishery on Thursday […]
Alaska’s first big, commercial salmon fishery of the season will open this week sans what has become the traditional Seattle fanfare. Blame COVID-19. With Seattle restaurants still in lockdown to slow the […]
UPDATE: The official catch for 2019 is now pegged at just under 208 million salmon with a weight of more than 872 million pounds. For the fourth time in the last six […]
Last week commercial fishermen from Cook Inlet were in court arguing the Alaska Department of Fish and Game had unfairly cut their fishing time to protect a struggling run of world-famous Kenai […]