Seafood processors across Bristol Bay in the summer rely mostly on the judgment of college students to determine the caliber of sockeye they’re buying from fishermen.
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How Gustavus’ spruce tips get into Juneau’s ice cream and booze
Each spring, about 50 pickers young and old get paid a few bucks a pound to collect spruce tips during a short harvest window in small town Gustavus.
Gardentalk — Trim a little now for a bigger harvest later
Prune each tomato or cucumber plant’s extra side shoots so it can put more energy into growing more fruit. Better ventilation and airflow around the plants also limits mold and mildew infections.
Yakutat sockeye fishery blindsided by historic low return
Commercial sockeye fishing in Yakutat has been closed due to historic low returns, leaving set-netters in a bind until coho and chum season later in the summer. Unlike other salmon fisheries around the Southeast, biologists never saw this coming.
Gardentalk – Go big with garlic and deadhead those scapes
Trim off the scape before it starts curling so the garlic plant can devote more energy to bulb development
Murkowski, Young respond to Chinese tariff on American seafood imports
Alaska’s economy could suffer as a result of China’s 25 percent tariff on American seafood imports and that worries U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski. In a written statement, Murkowski urges President Donald Trump to reach a trade policy with China that protects the export market.