Scientists studying salmon in the estuaries at the mouth of the Columbia River are warning that hatcheries intended to boost runs of big Chinook may be doing the river’s wild fish […]
Flawed rescue?
Humpies go home!
While Alaskans welcome back a swarm of pink salmon forecast to push the summer’s total salmon harvest near the 200 million mark once considered an unobtainable fishermen’s fantasy, 4,000 miles away […]
They’re back
After the great Pacific salmon crash of 2020 and early fears about the Alaska salmon run of 2021, the 49th state looks to be easing into another season of Piscean […]
Deteriorating pastures?
A significant drop in Pacific Ocean salmon harvests last year is driving new questions as to whether the ocean has reached its salmon carrying capacity. The discussion comes at a time when […]
Ever fewer
News analysis As Alaskans turn their attention to yet another forecast of a low return of sockeye salmon to the waters lapping at the shore of the state’s largest city, Canadian scientists […]
Losing salmon
The North Pacific Ocean is at this time home to more salmon than at any time in recorded history, and the residents of Seattle are worrying that their local sockeye, which once numbered […]
Threatened
After decades of opposing industrial development in the waters near the southern end of Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, the City of Homer is now going to bat for an industrial-scale fish farm the […]
Vital overreach
After years of Alaska politicians complaining about “federal overreach” in the 49th state, one legislator is now arguing that it is vital in Cook Inlet, the waterway that cuts into the heart […]
Deprivation diet?
Alaska’s decades-long bonanza of pink salmon has now been fingered as one of the likely suspects in a roller-coaster decline in size of four other species of Pacific salmon. After examining a […]
Shades of ’18
Along the southern edge of the Bering Sea, fishermen in Alaska’s Bristol Bay are enjoying yet another banner year, but to the east there are hints of the disaster of 2018. The […]
