200M-plus Salmon Again, but Market Chaos A warmer ocean continues to smile on Alaska commercial salmon fishermen, but the fish market is sadly another story. The 49th state these days finds […]
Warming bonus
Choked streams
Hatchery salmon smothering wild salmon? Scientists studying warming in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest have stumbled on a new way in which the state’s massive aquaculture industry could be harming wild salmon: hypoxia. […]
Broken promises
A news analysis With advocates for Alaska salmon hatcheries once again singing their praises, the time has come to revisit what was promised when the now massive 49th state hatchery program […]
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 […]
The feds arrive
Both economically and biologically, the commercial fisheries of Alaska’s Cook Inlet are imprecise and archaic. And now come federal regulators to try to apply Information Age precision to this chaos of […]
