"Our hunters still bring caribou home, but they increasingly do so by driving farther, hunting in new places, changing when and how they travel, and working around the roads and rigs. That we have adapted does not mean the development has...
“It’s crushed me and our small town to have this majestic pregnant fin whale carried in dead on the bow of a mega-cruise ship,” said Jamie Lyons, Seward resident and water taxi captain. “With the opening of the new cruise ship...
“Even North America’s toughest chickadee is no match for the compounding climate disruption that’s hammering the Arctic, and these birds need all the help they can get right now,” said Cooper Freeman, Alaska director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “We’re...
The whale was entangled in the lines of two commercial Tanner crab pots, each pot weighing approximately 800 pounds. Responders believe the whale likely encountered one pot line while feeding and subsequently became entangled in the second pot while towing the...
"Our constitution states that uses of water are all subject to the general reservation of fisheries and wildlife.” Said Rick Halford, former Senate President. “This requires that resources be managed for the maximum benefit of the people. Healthy salmon runs provide...
This provided new opportunities for purse seine vessels whose opportunities in other fisheries affected by the Blob—such as sardine, Alaska herring, and Alaska salmon—had dwindled. Seafood processors in Oregon scaled up to handle more squid, and Oregon fisheries managers developed their...
“People kept asking me, ‘Why aren’t you talking about the Pebble Mine or the Klamath (River) dam removal (in California)?’ And those are all more than worthy stories for a documentary. The problem is it becomes very political and controversial. But...
