Fighting for Alaska wild salmon Now 82 years old, Virgil Umpenhour has been at war with Alaska’s commercial salmon farmers, or ranchers as they prefer to call themselves, for most of his […]
The warrior
No salmon problems
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 […]
Zero-sum fishery
Are wild salmon the ultimate loser? A news analysis Alaska salmon farmers who annually turn almost 2 billion hatchery fish loose to feed on the pastures of the North Pacific Ocean […]
Dirty bottoms
Salmon ranch waste reported piling up Update: This story was updated on April 8, 2024 to specify the more than $10.3 million the state of Alaska in fiscal year funneled to […]
Pink problems
Researchers find a smoking gun The strongest evidence to date that Alaska’s industrial-scale, open-ocean farming of pink salmon has altered the North Pacific ecosystem came Thursday in a study published in the […]
