The great hatchery promise With Alaska on track to post its worst salmon harvest since 1979, it’s time to revisit the promise made to the state’s once taxpaying voters when they ponied […]
No Salvation
Dark politics
Fairy tales and blindness The great dream of ranked-choice voting in Alaska was that voters wouldn’t “need to worry about ‘spoilers,’ or feel forced to vote for the lesser of two evils.” […]
The ocean giveth
And the ocean taketh away The 2026 commercial salmon season in Alaska is not yet over, but it can already be called a full-on disaster in Prince William Sound, the heartland of […]
Nature’s whims
Alaska hatchery salmon gone missing The grand vision of an Alaska commercial salmon fishing industry stabilized by the hand of man producing fish in hatcheries and sending them to graze the sea […]
Crash of ’24
Another big bust in the Pacific salmon fisheries For the second time in four years, a huge decline in North Pacific salmon numbers is being reported in the wake of a big […]
Send help
Predictable call to aid Alaska fishermen The demand for a bailout of Alaska commercial salmon fishermen who didn’t see the salmon returns they expected this year didn’t take long. Alaska Rep. Sarah […]
Reds in peril
A group of Canadian and West Coast U.S. scientists think they have an answer as to why returns of sockeye salmon to the Kenai, Copper and other Western North American rivers have […]
Big day
Commercial salmon seiners in Alaska’s Prince William Sound were back at it Saturday with hopes that Thursday’s bonanza of nearly 3 million pink salmon marked the start of a predicted monster run […]
Humpies gone
Concern is edging toward panic for commercial salmon seiners in Alaska’s Prince William Sound where an expected big return of pink salmon has gone missing. The Alaska Department of Fish and […]
Tangled in conflict
Alaska Board of Fisheries member Fritz Johnson, a commercial fisherman from Bristol Bay, has resigned his seat on the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) removing one of several possible conflicts of interest […]
