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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Alaska’s Kenai River is today a textbook example of the problems of managing mixed-stock fisheries right down to commercial set gillnetters protesting they catch comparatively few of the weak stock. The weak […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
After two years of dismal Chinook returns to the Kenai River, the state’s most famous salmon stream is this year on the way to setting a new record for dismal as […]
