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 […]
New salmon homelands
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 dark side
Backed by the conservative Pacific Legal Defense Foundation, three Homer fishermen have gone to court to try to overturn the pending closure of commercial salmon netting in the federal waters of Cook […]
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 […]
Tastes better
Every day it seems to become just a little more obvious that the future of the commercial salmon business is on land no matter what Alaskans might think about where the tastiest […]
The chicken farmer
News analysis One cannot help but feel sorry for commercial fisherman and former chicken farmer Russell Clark, one of the 735 people who hold permits to set net for salmon […]
Simple solution
The third rock from the sun in the Milky Way galaxy is a planet in a constant state of change inhabited by lifeforms that either adapt or perish. Yes, we’re talking here […]
Farmers winning
As Alaska’s short-lived salmon season creeps toward a harvest of 200,000 tons – led by low-value pink salmon – Norwegian farmers are reporting sales of more than 100,000 tonnes of farmed […]
No fishing
Saving even a handful of king salmon trumps letting surplus sockeye salmon escape into the Kenai and Kasilof rivers the Alaska Board of Fisheries ruled today. The decision came in response to […]
