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 – […]
Up, down fisheries
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 […]
New salmon homelands
As the global climate warms, salmon in Canada and the Pacific Northwest might be facing new barriers in the never-ending struggle to survive, but a peer-reviewed paper published in Nature Communication earlier […]
The disrupters?
A trio of North America’s top salmon scientists has underlined their belief a 2020 fishery collapse in the Pacific Ocean was sparked by a deadly combination of warm water and over-abundance of […]
The salmon yo-yo
Once more the pendulum of ocean productivity has swung back to bless Alaska commercial salmon fishermen and processors – or at least some of them – with another season of bounty, […]
Unvestigative journalism
Leave it to a journalist funded by a “nonprofit investigative-news organization” based in Los Angeles to somehow either miss or overlook the fact Alaska is awash in salmon. The harvest this year […]
Fishery disaster
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 […]
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 […]
