While most of the United States was this year zigging into the fourth warmest November in recorded history, Alaska – or at least the most populated part of it – was […]
Old normal
Fair shares
Commercial fishermen, who the state fought to keep working this summer even as COVID-19 shut down many other businesses, are now pressuring the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to reduce the […]
No fishing zone
After years of negotiations between federal officials and Cook Inlet commercial fishermen over how to prosecute a federal fishery in the center of the 200-mile-long waterway that laps at Anchorage’s front […]
Warming winner
The Alaska Arctic appears to be home to global-warming winner familiar to almost everyone in the 49th state: pink salmon. Impossible to miss for those fishing in the “Top of the World” […]
Bell curves
The bell curve that no Alaskans wanted to see flatten started late, peaked early and is now falling fast as state fishery managers begin to worry about whether they will be able […]
Halibut hopes
With the Alaska tourism industry – the state’s largest employer – headed for the rocks, charter boat operators hoping to make it through the summer have made a desperate plea to the […]
The lobbyists
In debt to the state of Alaska to the tune of about $90 million, beholden to the state to collect and turnover hatchery taxes on commercial fishermen to keep hatcheries running, and […]
Halibut bash
Get ready for a big halibut battle in South Coastal Alaska. With the big, tasty flatfish continuing to decline in number in the North Pacific Ocean, the fish war that commercial fishing […]
Sea change
Across the remote, nearly 1 million square miles of water stretching north and south of the Arctic boundary between the U.S. and Russia, a monumental ecological shift powered by rising water temperatures […]
Hotlaska
An unusually warm June in Alaska has glaciers melting so fast that they have in places destroyed the salmon fishing. Mark Hem in the tiny community of Chitina in the east-central part […]
