To begin to understand how Alaska has so devalued salmon – once one of the state’s most valuable resources – one must return to the socially well-intentioned leaders of a state born at the end of the ...

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Sixty-six years ago, the political leaders of the newly formed state of Alaska banned fish traps for the harvest of salmon in the name of job creation. Thus began a multi-billion dollar devaluation of ...

Alaska’s Five-Year Plan for the Production of State Salmon is out with a scheme for the mother of all bailouts of the commercial salmon fishing industry. Ok, ok. This isn’t the plan’s actual title.

These now unUnited States of America have a drug problem, and it’s a lot bigger than the illicit chemicals that have cost the country more than $1 trillion since the War on Drugs was declared in 1971.

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With fisheries scientists now describing expanding populations of pink salmon as ecosystem disrupters across nearly the whole of the Northern Hemisphere, it is time someone asks a question that should ...