Climate change is today smiling on the commercial salmon fishermen and salmon processors of Alaska’s Bristol Bay in a big way with daily harvests of sockeye salmon exceeding the annual catches of […]
Warmings biggest winner
A troubled business
The size of the letters in the handwriting on the wall for the Alaska commercial salmon industry just keep getting bigger. Only days after the Bristol Bay sockeye harvest began with processors […]
Killing kings
The season for the most popular Alaska salmon in the state’s most populous region had only begun before it largely ended yesterday in another display of the sagging fortunes of Chinook salmon […]
Copper River bust
No sooner had the Alaska commercial salmon season begun amid reports of sky-high prices for Copper River kings and sockeyes than fishing was put on hold for lack of fish. Gillnetters were […]
Maw comes clean
After six years of legal maneuverings in the Alaska court system and who knows how many tens of thousands of dollars spent on attorney fees, former Alaska Gov. Bill Walker’s best-known appointee […]
Another weak year
The forecast is out for the return of sockeye salmon to Alaska’s Upper Cook Inlet (UCI), and it’s looking like a replay of recent mediocre years. The Alaska Department of Fish and […]
Searching for answers
Nudged into action by near unbelievable early findings of privately funded probes into the secret lives of Pacific salmon, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced it is this […]
Angry Canadians
Along the Pacific coast of Canada, where salmon runs are struggling so badly that there are fears they are dying, the finger of blame is being pointed at ocean harvests to the […]
Messing with nature
Scientists looking for evidence that climate-caused ocean acidification is harming North Pacific salmon have instead discovered something else – a threat to wild fish from Alaska’s massive, commercial-fishermen-funded, ocean-farming business. “Using 60 […]
New salmon homelands
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 […]
