Reading through the 260-page, 9/16th-inch thick Alaska Board of Fisheries Proposal Book published by the state, it is clear the one thing Cook Inlet commercial fishermen want most is more fishing time. […]
Fishing fair
Unhappy about state efforts to protect a struggling run of Kenai River king salmon, Cook Inlet commercial fishermen are headed into court today to ask a judge to order the Alaska Department […]
Fish Econ 101
News analysis Inefficiency is the bane of business and the boom of local economies. Alaskans in territorial days understood. As Bob Bartlett, the Territory of Alaska’s delegate to the U.S. Senate, observed […]
Here to help
Cook Inlet commercial fishermen who forced national intervention in the management of salmon bound for the Kenai, Kasilof, Susitna and other Southcentral Alaska rivers appear as if they might have sued […]
Fishing for votes
News analysis Alaska Gov. Bill Walker got most of the Hatfields and some of the McCoys of Cook Inlet salmon fishing together for a sitdown in Anchorage on Friday, and Commissioner of […]
Comm fish myths
KENAI – As sockeye salmon trickled into the 49th state’s most fought-over river on Friday, video showed Alaska Gov. Bill Walker and Commissioner of Fish and Game Sam Cotten meeting with […]
5 fish myths
Summer has arrived in the north, and with it there is everywhere talk of fish. In Alaska, some of the people fish all of the time, and most of the […]
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 […]
