Another bandaid on a gushing wound The Alaska Congressional delegation is singing praises for a new $100 million bailout of the state’s floundering commercial salmon processing business. In a joint statement […]
Bailouts
Fall of the kings
Are Alaska salmon farmers to blame? A news analysis The Seattle-area-based Wild Fish Conservancy has dropped a bomb on the Alaska commercial fishing industry with a petition to the federal government demanding […]
Gone processing
The price of progress? As you read this, work is continuing in Bellingham, Wash., on a $40-million, federally financed, salmon-processing barge some think could revolutionize the Alaska fishing business. By spring, the […]
Tangled up in fish
Alaska’s incredibly complicated marine ecosystems Populations of Pacific Ocean perch, a species about which little is known, and sablefish are now on the rise across the Gulf of Alaska and dominant in […]
Wild fish aid
Fairbanks group wants hatchery rollback With ever more attention turning to the question of how much the boom in pink salmon in the North Pacific Ocean is harming more valuable salmon, the […]
The indictment
Pink salmon disrupt ocean ecosystem Part II of II Scientists who stepped back from looking at the trees to study the forest that is the vast expanse of the North Pacific Ocean […]
Sea change
Major study links pink salmon and ocean chaos Part I of II Pink salmon and the hatcheries helped boost their numbers to never-before-seen highs were Thursday singled out for disrupting the ecosystem […]
False fix?
Hatchery benefits to wild fish questioned A “global synthesis” of 51 years’ worth of peer-reviewed studies examining interactions between hatchery and wild salmon has concluded that human efforts to improve on nature […]
Warming bonus
200M-plus Salmon Again, but Market Chaos A warmer ocean continues to smile on Alaska commercial salmon fishermen, but the fish market is sadly another story. The 49th state these days finds […]
Know-nothing journalism
Credibility dies in a field of little mistakes This is why it is painful to read what passes for news today: “Pink salmon get their nickname from their propensity […]
