News analysis A significant shift in fisheries management aimed at putting more salmon in Cook Inlet streams and rivers surrounding Alaska’s urban core is coming, and commercial fishermen have been […]
Seachange
The 1.5 percent
Data reveals that in fish crazy AK, most Alaskans don’t fish
Good intentions bad
Nine years ago in the name of safety, the National Park Service went to a permit system that capped the number of day hikers and backpackers on the cable-protected trail that forms […]
Nature taketh away
Kenai River salmon dipnetters now staring into empty freezers will not be surprised to learn that the official harvest numbers for the season are out, and the Alaska Department of Fish and […]
Salmon accounting
A news analysis UPDATE: This story was edited on Aug. 7 to reflect the loss the city of Kenai took on the dipnet fishery, a historic city moneymaker, and to update in-river […]
Overreach
An Alaskan who 35 years ago led a push to repeal the state’s subsistence priority law because he thought it a bad way to allocate wild, fish and game resources is […]
