ALASKA CAFE

Democracy worked recently in the latest Gubernatorial race in Alaska in my opinion. Special interests lost and that's the way Alaskans wanted it. Since my interest and experience is in the fishin...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-new-direction-for-fisheries.html

John Finley's 'Lindy II' with 10,500 lbs of cod aboard John Finley, of Kodiak, Alaska, has written a piece, below, offering his ten acre homestead on the back side of Kodiak Island for sale. ...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2014/07/remote-kodiak-homestead-for-sale.html

When great Alaskans run into trouble, a lot of the time we take a wait and see attitude instead of being pro-active. In this case I'm talking about long-time Kodiak fisherman and community advoca...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2014/07/when-great-alaskans-run-into-trouble.html

" US Secretary of State John Kerry sounded the alarm Monday on the perils facing the world's oceans, calling for a global strategy to save the planet's life-giving seas. "Let's develop a plan" ...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2014/06/us-secretary-of-state-john-kerry.html

In the Magnuson - Stevens Act that was enacted to provide a framework to manage the fisheries in the 200 miles of fish rich waters around U.S. shores, there is an intent to protect the fishing co...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-cfa-or-rsda-for-community-benefit.html

Two things are on the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council's mind these days, splitting up the loot in the Gulf of Alaska and the dumping of multitudes of species that the trawlers and long...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2014/03/council-business-or-monkey-business.html

Alaska's last Territorial Governor, Mike Stepovich, was only Governor a couple of years, but he was in the Governor's mansion when it counted, during the statehood fight. He was appointed by Pres...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-last-territorial-governor-passes.html

Remember when tanner crab was called 'spider crab'? There was no way that luscious delicacy of the deep was going to sell. The shrimp trawlers would get into a bunch of them and fill the trawls a...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2014/01/whats-in-name.html

You just gotta agree that Mark Twain hits the nail a lot. Well, maybe the miners would take offense to his 'hole in the ground quote'. I had to chuckle though, at the disparity between THE MARK T...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-hole-in-ground-owned-by-liars.html

My father worked in the fishing business all his life, not necessarily starting working in the cold storage in Petersburg when he was thirteen. That would have been around 1929. The year the sto...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-epitome-of-20th-century-cannery-man.html

Yeah, John, Salmon Limited Entry, as the first privatization scheme in the country, had a jump-start from Petersburg when a local seiner became it's first President. The Petersburg seiners were i...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2013/09/plan-b-for-alaskas-coastal-communities.html

View some of the 'TED Talks' and you'll see that social entrepreneurship is alive and well in the world and has answers for serious social and economic problems. The problem is that the people i...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2013/08/more-western-alaska-feudal-politics.html

REREADING THIS VICTOR SMITH PIECE FOR THE ALASKA DISPATCH IMMEDIATELY BROUGHT TO MIND TWO POINTS OF ORDER. FIRST, I NEVER TIED UP MY THOUGHTS ON THE ARNE FUGLVOG AFFAIR. I WAS ONLY CRITICAL OF A...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2013/08/alaska-fisheries-management-and-crony.html

Mines never worried me much until I started looking at them closer in regards to putting one in at the headwaters of the rivers that breed the largest runs of salmon left on the planet. I looked ...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-great-alaska-crater-mine.html

An award winning investigative journalist and a New York Times reporter published an article recently on western Alaska's fisheries and poverty problems. The subject has been wholey kept from nat...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2013/06/spoils-of-sea-elude-many-in-alaska.html

The  following is  information gathered from Alaska websites thatunderscores the blatant attemp to enrich the oil companies in Alaska at the expense of Alaska citizens. There are YouTube video...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2013/04/normal-0-false-false-false.html

THE KODIAK CITY COUNCIL AND BOROUGH ASSEMBLY RECENTLY SENT OUT A THREE QUESTION QUESTIONNAIRE ON TRAWL RATZ. IT WAS IN RESPONSE TO DR. SETH MACINKO'S  WARNING ABOUT THE DIRE EFFECTS OF CATCH SH...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2013/01/gulf-ratz-letter-misses-protective-mark.html

 WE STILL DON'T HEAR MUCH ABOUT THE CONNECTION BETWEEN CATCH SHARE FISHERIES AND THE DECLINE OF THOSE FISH STOCKS. HALIBUT IS UNDERGOING A STOCK CRASH AT THE MOMENT. THE OFFICIAL WORD ON THIS P...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2013/01/sharecroppers-of-sea.html

Shannyn Moore's latest column in the Anchorage Daily News on GMO fish started my gears grinding again. Not that I'd touch an 'Atlantic Salmon' with a ten foot pole with all the hormones and chemi...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2012/12/frankenfish-or-dinofish.html

 Shawn Dochterman rolled into our driveway one winter day in Southern Oregon after visiting family in Germany and California. He had also just come from a speaking engagement at a WWII Veterans...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2012/12/forgotten-crewmen-in-sea-of.html

Dear Ms. Bonney of Kodiak. Your theory about giving the National Marine Fisheries Service the "tool" sounds a little fishy to me. The 'tool' in your mind is that sledge hammer called privatizatio...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2012/12/bycatch-goodby-catch.html

"Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) supports greater involvement of fishermen in the stock assessment process and encourages fishermen to work with scientists to ensure that their knowledge and exp...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2012/11/fishermenscientists.html

The fish processing COMPANIES in the North Pacific have been trying to convince everyone for years that they have a God-given RIGHT to gain POSESSION of the fish resources. Nevermind that these ...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2012/10/trident-attacks-capitalism-in-court.html

 Is there a second crossing of the Bering Strait of a foreign culture, or is it a home grown one? What do you call a regional culture that would persecute someone for trying to start a proven e...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2012/10/human-rights-abuses-in-bering-strait.html

 NOAA locking the files on the science it uses must be the kind of thing we need to help send us over the fiscal cliff, so we can learn something? Shades of the world of the Western Alaska Nativ...

http://alaskacafe.blogspot.com/2012/09/noaas-secret-science.html