Feral pinks add to hatchery returns After decades of straying hatchery salmon trying to turn Alaska’s Prince William Sound into one giant salmon farm, a group of Alaska scientists are out with […]
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Choked streams
Hatchery salmon smothering wild salmon? Scientists studying warming in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest have stumbled on a new way in which the state’s massive aquaculture industry could be harming wild salmon: hypoxia. […]
Paint it pink
The North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC) this week posed a question that has been on the minds of some fisheries scientists for years now: “Are There Too Many Salmon in the […]
The big bust
The 2020 decline in North Pacific salmon numbers appears to have been the greatest in recorded history, according to a trio of scientists who’ve spent much of their careers studying the […]
Winning losers
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 […]
Fishlandia
Russia and Alaska continue to hog the harvests of North Pacific salmon, according to the latest report from the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC). Though the Russian harvest is little noticed […]
