Brian Hagenbuch

As Alaska’s salmon fishing season starts to wrap up, numbers are indicating a relatively poor showing overall.

While landings and fish tickets continued to trickle in, preliminary numbers from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game showed Alaskan salmon fishermen harvested around 113 million fish on the 2020 season, falling well short of the pre-season projection of nearly 133 million fish. It makes the season the fifth-worst even-year

A recent study that dove into more than 60 years of records from the Alaska Department Fish and Game found that salmon returning to Alaska’s rivers are on average smaller than they were in the past.

The study, headed up by biologists from the University of California Santa Cruz and the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, attributes declines in salmon size to "shifting age structures associated with climate and competition at sea."

The smaller

A group of 32 members of the U.S. Congress have asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to veto permits for Bristol Bay, Alaska’s Pebble Mine, a proposed open-pit copper and gold mine at headwaters that feed part of the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery.

U.S. Representative Jared Huffman (D-California) and U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Oregon) led the letter to EPA Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler, whose agency holds the

Former Red Lobster executive Jennifer Keith has taken over as director of procurement for the fast-growing Wild Alaskan Company, one of the country’s largest online seafood retailers.

Keith’s transition from foodservice to online retail takes places as Red Lobster struggles with big losses and looming debt amidst coronavirus shutdowns. Meanwhile Wild Alaskan – founded three years ago by third-generation Alaska fisherman and

The Army Corps of Engineers said in statement released Monday, 24 August, that the Pebble Mine project in Bristol Bay, Alaska cannot be permitted under its current proposal, a move that could sink the massive open-pit gold and copper mine at the headwaters of the world’s largest sockeye salmon run.

The statement clarified that the Trump administration supports the mining industry, but said the project “could have substantial

U.S. President Donald Trump plans to block permits for the proposed Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska, according to a Saturday, 22 August Politico report.

Politico cited six people close to the project in reporting Trump is expected to make a public statement opposing the project after a conference call with the Alaska’s Army Corps of Engineers office on Monday, 24 August.

It would be a surprising about-face from Trump, whom

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said over the weekend that he would oppose the proposed Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska, if he wins the November election.

In a prepared statement, the former vice president said he would uphold the Obama-era ruling that the proposed gold and copper mine would cause extensive damage to the Bristol Bay watershed and its prolific sockeye salmon run, the world’s largest.

“It’s no

U.S. President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., broke with his father earlier this week to speak out against Pebble Mine, a proposed gold and copper mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska, home to the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery.

In a rare split with the president, Trump Jr. retweeted a message from Nick Ayers, a former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, that directly called on his father to instruct the U.S.