Twenty-eight years ago, the state of Alaska banned fish farming in favor of salmon ranching. The idea was simple: Catch a bunch of fish, squeeze out their eggs and sperm, mix the […]
Deadly success?
Don’t worry….
At 12:39 a.m. on the night of the great Alaska tsunami that wasn’t, the Anchorage Office of Emergency Management sent out an email of a “tsunami warning until 01:35 a.m.” It was fake […]
Something’s missing
Halfway through the winter season, Southwestern Alaska finds itself confronting a strange, new world. The lower Kuskokwim River remains unfrozen. December felt like an average November, maybe October. And the temperature on Sunday […]
Dark & shivering
Money fish rule
Once more trawlers in the Bering Sea have gone to court in an effort to stop the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) from billing them for the costs of managing Chinook […]
A new green land
With the Arctic recording its second warmest year on record, despite global temperatures moderating slightly, the U.S. National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (N0AA) on Tuesday warned that the polar ice cap “shows no […]
Xmas blow
The climate-change Grinch did its best to steal the Christmas spirit from the tiny and remote, Alaska fishing community of Cordova, population 2,200, on Sunday. Screaming into town with hurricane-force winds […]
The feds arrive
Both economically and biologically, the commercial fisheries of Alaska’s Cook Inlet are imprecise and archaic. And now come federal regulators to try to apply Information Age precision to this chaos of […]
No whales now
Twenty-nine-years ago, Utqiaġvik was Barrow, Alaska, and winter ice was forming fast on this day. Words cannot really describe how different conditions now. On Friday, you could have surfed the Arctic Ocean off […]
Global stew
An ocean circulation phenomenon known as La Nina is brewing in the tropics west of Central America, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) suspects it might, maybe, kinda, could bring Alaska […]
