After two years of dismal Chinook returns to the Kenai River, the state’s most famous salmon stream is this year on the way to setting a new record for dismal as […]
Fishery disaster
Sky-high prices
The Alaska commercial fishing season kicked off in earnest this week with the tide rising. Not the tide of the ocean, mind you, but the tide of the global economy which helped […]
Winning losers
The global pandemic is causing problems for salmon farmers, but that is far from good news for Alaska commercial fishermen, processors or the few 49th state communities with economies still heavily dependent […]
Missing salmon
Alaska’s commercial fishing season has come to an end with a smallish – by decadal average standards – statewide harvest of about 114 million salmon looking almost identical to the smallish statewide […]
Warming winner
The Alaska Arctic appears to be home to global-warming winner familiar to almost everyone in the 49th state: pink salmon. Impossible to miss for those fishing in the “Top of the World” […]
The humpy swarm
As Alaska putters toward what looks to be its worst commercial salmon season in almost 40 years – despite another banner season for sockeye in Bristol Bay – Cook Inlet streams […]
Slim pickings
Commercial salmon fishermen in Alaska’s Bristol Bay are wrapping up another banner season while around the Gulf of Alaska harvests increasingly look on target to register as the worst in more than […]
Whale tale
The problem of predation at a hatchery in Southeast Alaska is going big-time in a slick video of a humpback whale invading a net pen to gobble salmon fry, and the state’s […]
Fishlandia
Russia and Alaska continue to hog the harvests of North Pacific salmon, according to the latest report from the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC). Though the Russian harvest is little noticed […]
Secret lives
A draft of the latest look into the secret lives of Pacific salmon is now in print, and it echoes the key finding of the 2019 voyage of the R/V Professor Kaganovskiy […]
