A new forecast for the 2016 sockeye salmon fishing season in Bristol Bay says the fishery, which opens by regulation on June 1, is expected to have a run of some 46.6 million fish, with 29.5 million potentially available for commercial harvest. The figures were released on April 4 by the Alaska Department of Fish […]
Will Lentz, a reader from Fairbanks, asks a question that flares every fall: why do some aspens turn red? A few scientists from Fort Collins, Colorado, pondered that subject in the late 1970s. Curious about red aspen trees people had noticed for half a century, they studied why these existed amid those with the more […]
Signaling the beginning of the bar-b-q season, the first salmon from the Copper River arrived in Seattle on Friday morning and first off the Alaska Air Cargo jet was a 48-pound King brought off the plane by Alaska Airline captain David Boshell and the aircraft’s first officer Melissa Van Dyke. The King Salmon got the […]