As Alaska salmon processors head into the fishing season hopeful of dodging the perils of the pandemic, a new report on the meat and poultry industries paints a portrait of a problem-filled […]
COVID gamble
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 […]
At last
Finally a hint of good news for the isolated fishing port of Cordova that has been in a tailspin since fall when a cash-strapped state of Alaska cut ferry service. Then came […]
The season begins
The Alaska fishing season in the Year of COVID-19 is off to a very rocky start. Salmon catches in the fabled Copper River fishery were far below expectations on Thursday with […]
COVID hits kings
Alaska’s first big, commercial salmon fishery of the season will open this week sans what has become the traditional Seattle fanfare. Blame COVID-19. With Seattle restaurants still in lockdown to slow the […]
Penning COVID-19
UPDATE: This is an update version of an earlier story. With almost 64,000 Americans now reported dead as a result of the corona-virus COVID-19 and the communities surrounding Alaska’s salmon-rich Bristol Bay […]
Troubled seas-food
A month ago, Blue Harvest Fisheries was touting its state-of-the-art plan to keep the pandemic coronavirus COVID-19 out of its processing plant in Bedford, Mass. Thursday the New Bedford Board of Health […]
Management mythology
In the strange, pandemic world of today, one of the unintended victims of the coronavirus COVID-19 could be the regularly and often loudly stated danger of “over-escapement” of salmon into Alaska streams […]
To live and die
Along a rough gravel road that follows the bed of a long-abandoned railway deep into one of the last great wilderness areas in North America, coronavirus COVID-19 has brought to the fore […]
COVID-iness
As fish processing companies working in Alaska try to come up with plans that will allow for summer operations in the new world of the coronavirus COVID-19, food production facilities across the […]
