Good news for Kenai River-area anglers: for the first time in a year, starting today, you can keep a coveted king from the river. From the Anchorage Daily News : King salmon returns to the Kenai have plummeted since 2009,...
Editor’s note: This story appears in the June issue of Alaska Sporting Journal. Alaskan Sara Pozonsky is making a documentary on the farmed salmon vs. wild salmon controversy. BY CHRIS COCOLES The boat speeds across the waters off the northeast coast...
Moose meat is a need for subsistence hunters in the Alaskan Interior. So state wildlife biologists made the decision to shoot 64 bears (54 black bears and 10 grizzlies) in the Kuskokwim River area with the intention of maintaining the...
A young Alaskan woman played dead during a frightening bear attack. From Yahoo news: The bear knocked Gamboa down, then picked her up and threw her to the ground. The bear went on to pummel Gamboa several times more...
The Funny River fire has burned 156,000 acres of Kenai Peninsula land, prompting 600 firefighters into action to help slow down the blaze that, per the Anchorage Daily News, jumped the Kenai River over the holiday weekend. Our frequent contributors,...
An Alaska Airlines flight that landed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport had quite a distinguished passenger list: the first haul of Copper River king salmon. As part of an annual event sponsored by Alaska Air Cargo, the plane was full of Copper...
We’re working on a profile on the upcoming salmon documentary, A Fishy Tale, that will run in our June issue. The argument that producer Sara Pozonsky is trying to convey in her film is the surplus of salmon fish farms in...
Record? Or Not? Photo courtesy of Larry Fitzgerald The debate about records amuses me. Baseball’s true home run king? Barry Bonds’ detractors say he wasn’t clean through rampant rumors of his alleged steroid abuse, and he didn’t endure the ignorant racist...