An update from the Northern Journal trail Some news and notes, including a leg wrestling video, about my work and travels over the past couple of months.
The last skipper in Ouzinkie: How Gulf of Alaska villages lost their Native fishing fleets A permitting system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more profitable. But over the last 50 years, it has hollowed out many Indigenous coastal villages where residents no longer can earn a living by harvesting salmon.