Financial collapse kills AquaBounty salmon plans Score one for Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska. AquaBounty Technologies – the Massachusetts-based company that claimed to have found “a better way to feed the world” with […]
Frankenfish ‘culled’
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 […]
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 […]
One man’s war
Table reversed to put retired judge on trail Nineteen years ago in Alaska, a then-big game guide by the name of David Haeg was convicted of illegally hunting wolves from an airplane […]
Plummeting value
Humpysque prices for sockeye salmon A perfect economic storm is brewing across Alaska as the 49th state heads into the heart of the brief and frenzied season that defines its commercial […]
A natural disaster
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is far from over, but already it can claim its place as the worst national disaster to strike the U.S in the lifetimes of nearly everyone reading this. As […]
New Alaska tribes?
Already home to about 40 percent of the federally recognized Indian tribes in the United States, Alaska might soon be able to claim more. The U.S. Department of the Interior wants to […]
Impeachment gauge
The results are in, and they show what Americans really care about: the head-bashing business of professional football. “Sunday Night Football (on NBC) delivered 15.78 million viewers in the fast nationals […]
BP’s gas play
BP is going big on liquified natural gas (LNG), only not in Alaska. Less than a month after the London-based petroleum giant announced it had found a way to extricate itself from […]
Where goes Alaska
Alaskans are yet again fighting over who gets to catch the state’s limited supply of salmon, and the rest of the world is marching into the future not caring at all. […]
