Brian Hagenbuch spent a decade in South America, where he was a journalist for Reuters and Time Out in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. He now lives in Seattle and works as a freelance writer and translator, as well as a commercial fisherman in Bristol Bay.
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The Alaska pink and chum salmon catch have come in well below their respective statewide forecasts as the season for both winds down
… Read MoreThe Alaska seafood industry is trying to figure out what the tit-for-tat tariff situation with China will mean to a previously promising trade relationship
… Read MoreWhile much of Alaska posted low salmon runs in 2018, sockeye flooded Bristol Bay again for a third straight year of historic runs
… Read MoreBreakneck growth in Seattle, Washington is burying some of the city’s icons so quickly that there is an Instagram page with nearly 15,000 followers called “Vanishing Seattle.” It seems like around every corner, small businesses are being dozed under to make way for sprawling new multi-use buildings.
But Seattle’s most visible mom-and-pop seafood outlet, Pike Place Fish Market – front and center at the iconic
… Read MoreThe recently released Bristol Bay Sockeye Market Report is predicting the world’s largest sockeye fishery is potentially poised for a bumper year
… Read MoreRecord-setting prices on early season sockeye and chinook salmon from the Copper River in Alaska have fishmongers at Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington taking extra care while flinging the fish through the air
… Read MoreFishermen and activists in Bristol Bay, Alaska – home to the world’s largest sockeye salmon run – called for state officials to level a moratorium on mining in the region after news broke that the major financial backer for the controversial Pebble Mine had withdrawn its support
… Read MoreBristol Bay, Alaska’s sockeye salmon season opens 1 June, and the annual guessing game on how much processors will pay per pound is underway. The mood seems to be one of cautious optimism, as indicators point to last season’s strong price holding
… Read MoreThe Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) announced the opening of Bristol Bay, Alaska’s fishery for 1 June, 2018, with a colossal forecast of more than 51 million sockeye
… Read MoreGetting ahead of the economic impacts that tend to accompany fisheries' closures is the basis of a new predictive model put together by a team of scientists from NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NFSC) and the University of Washington.
When fisheries shut down, entire communities suffer, the scientific team recognized, and oftentimes, funds doled out to help fishermen weathering rough patches arrive months after they are needed.
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