Industrial-scale, ocean farming all good – state officials Only weeks after a Seattle biologist warned Canadians that salmon numbers in the North Pacific Ocean have reached the point where ocean-farmed fish threaten […]
No salmon problems
Accepting reality
Ocean pastures are not limitless An Oregon State University professor studying the levels of dissolved oxygen in the offshore waters of the Pacific Northwest has described almost perfectly what Alaska’s free-range salmon […]
Sea change
Major study links pink salmon and ocean chaos Part I of II Pink salmon and the hatcheries helped boost their numbers to never-before-seen highs were Thursday singled out for disrupting the ecosystem […]
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 […]
Paint it pink
The North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC) this week posed a question that has been on the minds of some fisheries scientists for years now: “Are There Too Many Salmon in the […]
Losing the battle
The Alaska commercial salmon season is long over and fading fast from memory, but the salmon business is still rolling along in Norway with record sales. The Norwegian Seafood Council started the […]
The salmon yo-yo
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, […]
Fishery disaster
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 […]
Ever fewer
News analysis As Alaskans turn their attention to yet another forecast of a low return of sockeye salmon to the waters lapping at the shore of the state’s largest city, Canadian scientists […]
Deprivation diet?
Alaska’s decades-long bonanza of pink salmon has now been fingered as one of the likely suspects in a roller-coaster decline in size of four other species of Pacific salmon. After examining a […]
