salmon

Disparate interests represented at Salmon Habitat Forum

By Jay Barrett • Dec 12, 2017
Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks

On Thursday night, the University of Alaska College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences is hosting a forum in Kenai about salmon habitat protection policy. The panelists are representatives of state government and advocates from the industries most affected, such as sportfish guiding, oil and gas development and mining.

Milo Adkison is a professor of fisheries at the University of Alaska.

Annual dipnet report spotlights city's new app

By Shaylon Cochran • Dec 8, 2017
Redoubt Reporter

 

The Kenai City Council heard and discussed the annual dipnet report at its meeting this week.

 


Peninsula commercial fishermen haul $135 million in revenue

By Jay Barrett • Oct 24, 2017

 The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute recently released its annual report on the economic impact of the seafood industry in Alaska.

Commissioned by the McDowell Group, the ASMI report details where and how 56,800 Alaskan fishermen and processors harvested 5.6 billion pounds of seafood, worth $4.2 billion wholesale. The nationwide economic impact is estimated at over $12 billion.

Fall 2017: New information from 2,000-year-old salmon

By Jay Barrett • Oct 3, 2017

 

On KDLL’s special membership drive edition of Kenai Science Friday, what the DNA analysis of ancient salmon bones might be able to tell us about the people who lived on the Kenai Peninsula 2,000 years ago, and how that might relate to fisheries politics today. Paleogenomics meets anthropology with guests professor Alan Boraas of Kenai Peninsula College and Dr. Ripan Malhi of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne.

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