Commercial fishermen, who the state fought to keep working this summer even as COVID-19 shut down many other businesses, are now pressuring the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to reduce the […]
Fair shares
Pain of change
The United Fishermen of Alaska – one of the 49th state’s most powerful political entities – is mad that commercial salmon fishermen might be losing some fishing opportunities in Cook Inlet, but […]
Attack chief
A man identifying himself as “the chief of staff for Rep. Ivy Sponholz,” D-Anchorage, today eliminated another former employee of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game from the pool of […]
A new twist
Almost a week after Alaska Rep. Ivy Spohnholz, D-Anchorage, accused a retired Anchorage Superior Court judge of sexual harassment in a successful effort to sink his appointment to the state Board of […]
Judge judged
Two more women who worked closely with retired Anchorage Superior Court Judge Karl Johnstone when he served on the Alaska Board of Fisheries prior to 2015 say they saw no sign of […]
The last colony
News Analysis The United Fishermen of Alaska (UFA) has issued its annual report on who got the fish of the 49th state, and the winner is? Outside fishing interests. Of the 6.4 […]
Fighting the tide
News analysis After three years of work, a University of Alaska Fairbanks study of the state’s commercial fishing industry has reached one conclusion nobody in the 49th state wants to talk about […]
Fishermen trouble
The 68-year-old president of the United Fishermen of Alaska – one of the 49th state’s most powerful lobbies – and three other commercial fishermen have been cited in Cordova for failing to […]
Unhooked from hiring freeze
The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute has been freed from a state hiring freeze so it can advertise for a new domestic marketing director to work in Seattle. The starting salary is listed […]
