Scientific guestimating For years now, Cook Inlet commercial fishermen have been trooping before the Alaska Board of Fisheries to complain that the state is undermining the productivity of the Kenai River, the […]
Dreaded over-escapement
China wins
The global humpy leader Scientists can argue about the ecological consequences of Alaska salmon hatcheries helping to flood the North Pacific Ocean with pink salmon, but what appears clear now is that […]
Humpies invade
The all-conquering pink salmon While Alaska fisheries biologists have been fretting about whether pink salmon straying from the state’s ocean-farming ranches could damage the genetics of wild, 49th-state pinks, the feral progeny […]
Drug free?
Salmon farmers make big claim Nova-Austral, a Chilean salmon farming business, is claiming to now be raising antibiotic-free salmon. If the claim is true, it would put the company one up on […]
War on farmers
Is Alaska next? As if the Alaska commercial salmon fishing business didn’t already have enough problems, now some Michelin chefs have the knives out. WildFish, a charity based in the United Kingdom, […]
Russia wins
Competition for cheap protein Russia looks to have once again beaten Alaska in the annual battle to produce the maximum volume of the lowest-value salmon in the Pacific Ocean, and this despite […]
Going down
Oh-oh moment for Alaska salmon season With the Alaska commercial salmon season now more than 80 percent done with a harvest lagging behind the pre-season forecast, as was the case last year, […]
Trainwreck fishery
Tough times continue for Alaska fishing industry As the commercial salmon fishing in Alaska heads into the heart of its summer season, the 49th state would appear to be reliving the […]
Reality bites
Alaska’s struggling salmon business While the North Pacific Ocean appears to have hit peak salmon – possibly to the detriment of the most prized and valued of salmon species – the […]
The masquerade
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 […]
