After setting up a roll call vote in a near empty Senate Chamber, using a relatively unknown Senate rule, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senator from Kentucky, bullied Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren into silence on the Senate floor. Warren had taken to the floor during the debate on Senator Jeff Sessions nomination […]
A new study shows that the king salmon harvest in Western Region of Alaska commercial fisheries and Kodiak area sport fisheries from 2014 through 2016 was comprised mainly of British Columbia and West Coast U.S. stocks. Those harvests of Chinooks were followed by smaller contributions from Southeast Alaska/Northeast Gulf of Alaska, Cook Inlet and Kodiak, […]
Right now, young Chinook salmon are leaving the rivers they were born in to begin life at sea. The first year in the ocean is thought to be the most critical time in the life of a salmon, and largely decides how many will live and be available to harvest as adults or return to […]
Sixty percent of U.S. seafood comes from Alaska. A profitable portion of this comes from the famed crab fisheries. New studies on the effects of ocean acidification due to climate change support a growing body of evidence that the future for Tanner and blue king crab stocks in Alaska waters is, at best, uncertain. “A […]