Never bet against tech Part 3 of a 4-part series Now semi-retired Alaska economist Gunnar Knapp, the nation’s foremost authority on the economics of the Alaska fishing business, offered a blunt warning […]
Alaska salmon 2025, modern history III
Cook Inlet’s Everwar
Apparently unaware of why the Alaska Boards of Fisheries and Game were created and clueless as to the biological significance of the commercial salmon fishery in Upper Cook Inlet, Rep. Sarah Vance, […]
Lifting the curtain
Window opens for possible “Fish War’ game changer Amidst chaos comes the change if not the need to think outside the box, and thus Alaska fishery biologists today find themselves staring […]
Small victories
The 2022 fishing season might have left some commercial fishermen in Upper Cook Inlet mad as hell and wanting to do battle with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in court, […]
For the fish
An Alaska judge on Monday decided that salmon matter more than money and turned down a request that he order state Commissioner of Fish and Game Doug Vincent-Lang to reopen commercial setnet […]
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 […]
Seachange
News analysis A significant shift in fisheries management aimed at putting more salmon in Cook Inlet streams and rivers surrounding Alaska’s urban core is coming, and commercial fishermen have been […]
Fish more
Reading through the 260-page, 9/16th-inch thick Alaska Board of Fisheries Proposal Book published by the state, it is clear the one thing Cook Inlet commercial fishermen want most is more fishing time. […]
DOA king fishery
Chinook salmon runs in Upper Cook Inlet have taken a depressing turn back to the future with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game this week announcing the closure of May, June […]
Adapt or die
Alaska needs to find ways to encourage innovation in the commercial fishing industry to head off declines in a struggling, one-time mainstay of the state economy, the former director of the University […]
