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Alaskan halibut often weigh over 100 pounds (45 kg). Specimens under 20 pounds (9.1 kg) are often thrown back when caught. With a land area of 586,412 square miles (1,518,800 km 2), not counting the Aleutian islands, Alaska is one-fifth the size of lower 48 states, and as Ken Schultz [4] notes in his chapter on Alaska [5] "Alaska is a bounty of more than 3,000 rivers, more than 3 million lakes ...
The global reindeer population is estimated at five million, including 900,000 caribou in Alaska. Predation and disease determine reindeer herd size presently. Overhunting has historically ...
Changes in caribou migration can be problematic for Alaska Natives, who depend on caribou for food. [16] Caribou in Alaska are abundant; currently there are an estimated 950,000 in the state. [16] The populations of caribou are controlled by predators and hunters (who shoot about 22,000 caribou a year). [16]
The Porcupine caribou is a herd or ecotype of the mainland barren-ground caribou (Rangifer arcticus arcticus, syn. R. tarandus groenlandicus [1]), the subspecies of the reindeer or caribou found in Alaska, United States, and Yukon and the Northwest Territories, Canada.
Alaska Dispatch was a news organization founded in 2008 and based in Anchorage, Alaska. It was originally an online news outlet focusing on statewide coverage of the U.S. state of Alaska, and on circumpolar affairs and policy. [1] In 2014, the organization purchased the Anchorage Daily News from McClatchy Newspapers, merging the two news ...
As of 11:30 a.m. ET, Urban Outfitters stock was up about 15%. Urban Outfitters had its best third quarter, which ended in October, in its history, with net sales of nearly $1.4 billion and net ...
Between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. Eastern time, viewership of “Morning Joe” fell 17% — from 839,000 to 694,000. In the 25-54 age demographic that is most coveted by advertisers, viewership dropped ...
Alaska Journal of Commerce – Anchorage; Arctic Sounder – Northwest Arctic Borough and North Slope Borough (under Anchorage Daily News) Bristol Bay Times – Bristol Bay (under Anchorage Daily News) Capital City Weekly – Juneau (under Juneau Empire) Chilkat Valley News – Haines; Cordova Times – Cordova; The Delta Discovery – Bethel