One last Iditarace Alaska’s Iditaseason is winding to close with moose-war musher Jesse Holmes claiming a second, consecutive Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race victory in Nome; a lot of talk swirling around […]
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Trawling 4 love
Troubled image of AK largest fishery Under fire for the incidental harvest of salmon, which some claim has devastated Chinook returns to the Kuskokwim and Yukon rivers despite any scientific evidence to […]
The bogeyman
Data contradicts feelings Alaska Commissioner of Fish and Game Doug Vincent-Lang went to Soldotna for a fishing conference this week, stated one thing obvious about the decline in Alaska king salmon, and […]
Losers vs winners
King salmon going down as pinks go up An eight- to nine-fold increase in Prince William Sound pink salmon now credited to the open-ocean farming of the North Pacific Ocean has […]
Predator vs prey
A news analysis The Bristol Bay sockeye salmon season is coming off another record year, and crab numbers in the Bering Sea are crashing. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game […]
Salmon kill salmon?
The mystery surrounding the shrinking size and number of Alaska king salmon might be as simple as this: The biggest, most highly prized salmon in the north simply can’t compete with the […]
Money fish rule
Once more trawlers in the Bering Sea have gone to court in an effort to stop the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) from billing them for the costs of managing Chinook […]
Bring our fish home
More than 36,000 pounds of prized Alaska salmon and halibut now sitting in Seattle could be headed north again if the Fairbanks Community Food Bank can raise the money to cover the […]
Kenai subsistence challenged
A federal agency wants to end a tiny subsistence, gillnet salmon fishery in the Kenai River for almost the exact same reason — bycatch — that more than 43,000 Alaskans in […]
