Ocean pastures are not limitless An Oregon State University professor studying the levels of dissolved oxygen in the offshore waters of the Pacific Northwest has described almost perfectly what Alaska’s free-range salmon […]
Demarketing
Canadians target sales of Alaska salmon Stealing a page from the playbook Alaska commercial salmon fishermen and some environmental groups used in an effort to kill net-pen salmon farming more than a […]
An Ick(y) problem?
Hints of a new risk for Yukon Chinook A news analysis Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have come up with a new possibility as to why Bering […]
Eating more fish
But little of it appears to be Alaskan The National Seafood Institute has proclaimed 2021 a “Record Year for Seafood Consumption” in the U.S., which would at first blush look like great […]
The run is on
Will the beginning be the best of the season? The 49th seafood business, a self-proclaimed “cornerstone of Alaska’s economy,” has kicked off the salmon season with a healthy though less than great […]
Canada’s loss
UPDATE: This story has been revised from the original to reflect the similar declines in wild Southeast Alaska chum masked by an increase in hatchery chum production. As Southeast Alaska catches of […]
O Canada
As if Canadian commercial fishermen didn’t have it bad enough with precipitously declining salmon runs and Alaska interceptions of Canadian-born fish, now they’ve lost Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification of their sockeye, […]
Up, down fisheries
Despite a monster catch of sockeye salmon in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, the 2022 harvest of wild-caught Pacific salmon appears to be once again yo-yoing down toward an even-year low. Trade-X Foods – […]
Warmings biggest winner
Climate change is today smiling on the commercial salmon fishermen and salmon processors of Alaska’s Bristol Bay in a big way with daily harvests of sockeye salmon exceeding the annual catches of […]
Killing kings
The season for the most popular Alaska salmon in the state’s most populous region had only begun before it largely ended yesterday in another display of the sagging fortunes of Chinook salmon […]