A group of international fisheries scientists is now pointing out the simple, ecological reality of mathematics long ignored by Alaska salmon managers: addition matters as well as subtraction. With the […]
Fish math
Shrinking salmon
The hidden costs of Alaska hatcheries Commercial salmon fishermen all along the West Coast of North America may be paying a serious price in lost poundage to help put dollars in the […]
Broken promises
A news analysis With advocates for Alaska salmon hatcheries once again singing their praises, the time has come to revisit what was promised when the now massive 49th state hatchery program […]
New ocean order
The salmon fishing industries of Alaska and Russia look poised to continue as the big beneficiaries of global warming, the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAC) has been told, with Canada and […]
A fish mining tax
Salmon farmers in Norway have proven so successful that the Norwegian government is now proposing to treat them like most other resource extraction industries in a move that is roiling the aquaculture […]
Semi-annual bailouts
Even when things are bad, it’s good to be a commercial fisherman in Alaska. In the fat years, salmon fill the nets, and they haul in boatloads of cash. And in the […]
Relentless tech
As the Alaska commercial salmon fishery, once a mainstay of the 49th state economy, trundles along bound by decades-old rules designed to maximize inefficiency, the world keeps moving forward in the name […]
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 – […]
A troubled business
The size of the letters in the handwriting on the wall for the Alaska commercial salmon industry just keep getting bigger. Only days after the Bristol Bay sockeye harvest began with processors […]
Messing with nature
Scientists looking for evidence that climate-caused ocean acidification is harming North Pacific salmon have instead discovered something else – a threat to wild fish from Alaska’s massive, commercial-fishermen-funded, ocean-farming business. “Using 60 […]
