Only in Alaska where black is white With fisheries scientists now describing expanding populations of pink salmon as ecosystem disrupters across nearly the whole of the Northern Hemisphere, it is time someone […]
The masquerade
Bad business
Battering the AK brand Alaska now enters the heart of the commercial salmon season with the fishing industry in chaos. In a commentary in the trade publication Seafood Source, seafood industry consultant […]
Frankenfish arrive
With a pitch for salmon “free of antibiotics and ocean contaminants,” AquaBounty Technologies has announced it is soon to harvest for sale in the U.S. the first of its genetically engineered “Frankenfish,” […]
Threatened salmon?
Despite the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s 2021 forecast of another monster catch of 190 million salmon – more than twice the state’s average annual harvest in the 20th Century […]
New world order
As commercial fishermen in Alaska’s Cook Inlet continue to beat the dead horse of “maximum sustained yield (MSY),” the world of seafood is evolving at the speed of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. China’s […]
Maximum efficiency
One of the most contentious fisheries in the waters off the Alaska coast is now making claims to being one of the world’s climate-friendliest sources of protein. Citing research from the University […]
A dark horizon
If you’re an Alaska commercial salmon fishermen, be forewarned; the farmers in Wisconsin are coming for you. Dangers lurking in the future might be easy to overlook coming after another boom […]
Real world
News analysis While the Alaska Department of Fish and Game was celebrating what it claims as another “record” season for commercial fishermen in remote Bristol Bay, a company rooted in Denmark was forging […]
