With this year’s plunge in oil prices, a single chinook salmon is now worth more than a barrel of oil.
The winter kings being caught by Southeast trollers are averaging 10 pounds each with a dock price of $7.34 a pound, according to state fish tickets. That adds up to $73 per fish, compared to about $30 for a barrel of oil.
Well so much for that "Drill, baby drill" approach to paying the bills in Alaska.
I have to say as somebody who watched my state plunge into corruption with the discovery of oil on the North Slope I am not exactly heartbroken to see that it will no longer be driving our economy.
However in order to prepare for what comes next we are going to need strong courageous leadership.
Hopefully Governor Bill Walker is up to the task.
Do you know who is really going to love this news?
Dennis Zaki.
Zaki absolutely HATES what oil has done to this state, but damn does he love fish.
Who is Dennis Zaki?
ReplyDeleteHe is one of the geniuses running around screaming that Sarah and Todd were getting a divorce when there was absolutely no truth to the story. They have a crappy marriage but are still together. Zaki is a dumbfuck.
DeleteWho is Dennis Zaki?
DeleteSee this IM article:
http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.ca/2014/12/our-friend-dennis-zaki-has-new-very.html
and his web site:
http://alaskatrekker.com/
and this one:
https://vimeo.com/user798051
7:30 AM Right Sarah and Todd are the perfect marriage of Pimp and Whore. Todd is away until his contract with Sarah involves a political trip.
DeleteAnonymous 7:30 AM wrote: Zaki is a dumbfuck.
DeleteIf you're going to engage in gratuitous personal insult (not to be confused with criticizing a specific post), at least put your name on your comment, you demonstrably gutless coward.
Ted,
DeleteGo back to the barn you were raised in and shut up.
Your Mother
Somebody get up on the wrong side of the bed today, 7:30 AM?
DeleteThanks, Ted, I love the Alaska Trekker site, but somehow missed the Vimeo one!
DeleteMildred
Anonymous7:30 AM
DeleteAnd Zaki didn't have a copy of Sarah's indictment in his inbox?
Well alrighty then. But he actually did. Along with another blogger, so fuck off. Somehow they went poof when sarah quick? How do you explain that troll?
Don't worry troll payme's will get theirs but good.
Anyway getting back to AK, they have made their whole economy on raping and plundering the state resources. I don't think one Gov can turn that around. They have no other economy except a weak tourist economy If they could change their attitude toward tourist's... Start loving their beautiful mountains and wildlife, instead of killing and drilling it, they could have a nice economy built on tourist trade.
The gig is up Ted. If you are going to constantly butt in to conversations you weren't invited to, for no reason other than to complain and yell at others like an old man, at least stop hiding behind your beard, you bearded gutless coward.
DeleteLink to the indictment please?
DeleteAnonymous12:24 PM
DeleteLink to the indictment please?
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Maybe if you go to AK News paper that Dennis had you may find it there otherwise there is no link to a email, duh! Otherwise search the AK bloggers for that time. Knock yer self out. B/c that was one of the icebergs that went poof when she quit.
@12:24 search in here you may find it or not Dennis ran the Alaska Report http://alaskareport.com/news/z49999_corrupt_bastards.htm
DeleteI didn't realize we needed invitations to join the "conversations" on Gryphen's blog. So glad you're here, 10:22, to school us on the etiquette of comment threads.
DeleteNext time I'm sure Ted and the rest of us will wait for your invitation before we post.
Anonymous2:21 PM
DeleteNo worries no invitation needed! That is the "Bossy" troll who would love to monopolize the whole thread but we don't let her.
Screw her.
Post her when ever, Gryphen is the boss her no the frigid dried up bossy troll...She can go to hell!
"Bossy?"
DeleteI thought it was spelled "A-s-s-h-o-l-e."
God's plan, obviously
ReplyDeleteSo, now Alaskans are going to hunt down every salmon until there aren't any left. Fish, baby, fish!
ReplyDeleteThe factory trawlers are doing just fine, killing salmon as bycatch while netting for cheap pollock.
DeleteGryph knows Dennis Zaki personally but, as someone from outside of AK, I know of him. He's a fantastic photographer! Some of his photos of AK have taken my breath away.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet Little Miss Know Nothing still smirks, "Drill baby Drill" whenever she has a mic in front of her. Stupid idiot doesn't pump her own gas, so she probably doesn't have a clue that her gas guzzlers are now costing about half to fill. Thanks, Obama!! (yes, I know the President has zip to do with oil prices, but Sarah and her RW stooges don't.)
ReplyDeleteI agree that having all of the redneck opportunists flock to this state has not been good for it............however, when oil is cheap and plentiful, there is less incentive for people to conserve it and find an alternate source. And we are pretty much all doomed if we don't address it NOW, and in a very big way. I was much happier when it was almost $5 a gallon at the pump and people were considering turning their trucks in for smart cars!
ReplyDeleteOil may be temporarily cheap now just to strangle ISIS financially. As soon as ISIS is bankrupt and disbanded, the price will go up sharply and quickly.
DeleteZaki absolutely HATES what oil has done to this state, but damn does he love fish.
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As fragile as the salmon's future was, I worry it could now be a death sentence for them. Commercial and sport fishing, along with oceanic pollution and environmental encroachment on their spawning territories could put these valuable fish in the extinct column. I hope it's not too late now.
Mildred
Mildred don't look up, the sky is falling.
Delete8:39, if you want to continue to eat salmon in the future, and I do, we need to become more responsible with our natural resources. Far more responsible than we have been with fossil fuels.
DeleteNo, the sky is not falling. But people who respond in such childish ways to the problems we will need to deal with, such as climate change, are who hinder progress the most. You must be republican?
Mildred
Well, there is only one answer for this planet, and really for the future of humanity Mildred. Less humans. Till we realize that, it doesn't really matter.
DeleteI'm not republican, but definitely not democrat, I'm just smart.
Don't forget, Pebble Mine isn't dead yet.
DeleteI have to agree 5:53. The planet can not sustain the needs of the population for much longer. We need an negative population growth immediately.
DeleteMildred
Mildred
OT-THIS!>
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-press_us_56a552fee4b076aadcc6fefc
OT-2016 FAIL THESE BITCHES!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/phoenix-racist-t-shirts_us_56a5a5f3e4b0404eb8f2152b
TELLING:
Deletehttp://thinkprogress.org/education/2016/01/25/3740970/black-college-students-bias/
When $tupid $arah said she still wants to drill, I wonder if that pea sized brain realizes that the price is still dropping, because Iran is now going to sell to the open market.
ReplyDeleteWhen gas was high, the Tealiban/Palinbots were whining how bad Obama was. Now that it's low, they are whining about how many oil related jobs we're losing
IS THERE ONE EFFING THING THESE CHRISTIAN TALIBAN won't whine about and blame on libturds, and the black man in the white house?
And speaking of Christian lunatics, check out this great example of how one tough lawbreaker in the Oregon standoff is challenging Chris Christie
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/watch-loincloth-clad-oregon-militant-challenges-chris-christie-to-a-sumo-match-in-this-bonkers-video/
I think he rivals Palin with his obscene display of a fugly body and soul.
I'm still not sure about Walker. Palin endorsed him and Mallott, after all. I realize that was just to spite Parnell, but still...
ReplyDeleteOn Morning Joe Sam Stein asked Christie about "critics in your state and elsewhere who do wonder why you're back up in New Hampshire so early", considering the flooding damage in NJ.
ReplyDelete“Sam, I don’t even know what critics you’re talking about. There is no residual damage, there is no flooding damage," Christie said. "All of the flooding receded yesterday morning. And there was no other damage. People were driving around the streets yesterday morning of New Jersey. So this is just what they wish would have happened."
"Unfortunately for them, we know how to do this," the governor continued. "We managed the storm extraordinarily well. New Jersey Transit was back at noon yesterday after the storm, our roads were all open by 7 a.m. yesterday. And so, I think that’s what just folks who want to criticize me for anything that I do, and I have not heard any of that criticism, I have not seen any of that criticism, and I think you’re just making it up.”
NJ residents have slammed Christie's assertion that their state "dodged a bullet."
"Oh yeah?" asked a resident of Cape May County, New Jersey, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer's report published Sunday evening. "Gov. Christie should come down here and get in his fishing waders and live my life." According to the same report, in which residents, local officials and business owners called the flooding worse than Sandy in 2012, Christie characterized coastal flooding as minor to moderate, and remarked at a Sunday news conference that there was no significant property damage.
Another business owner said of Christie's assessment of storm damage, "He couldn't claim a disaster because that would mean he'd have to stay here."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/chris-christie-snowzilla-2016-218179#ixzz3yHNkRXkJ
Christie is absolutely clueless. I live one state over and our stations cover New Jersey. We got socked with the fourh biggest blizzard on record. S Jersey got the storm and two high tides, houses just completed from the hurricane got eaten up by the ocean. Chrstie came down in his heelycopter for a photo op "A leader does this, A leader does that,,,, leaving Mary Pat to stump for him, he waddled back on his plane, if a question didn't have to do with the election, he didn't hear it... and the propellers strained and sputtered, hauling his fat ass back near iowa. He's got columbians cleaning the snow off his EMPTY Mendham mansion, and he's lecturing people on what a leader does.
DeleteOT-IF THIS IS TRUE?
ReplyDeletehttp://dailycaller.com/2016/01/24/planned-parenthood-wants-to-keep-damning-videos-hidden-from-supreme-court/?google_editors_picks=true
THEN THIS>
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/01/23/3742221/sanders-hyde-repeal/
ReplyDeletewww.sierraclub.org/new-jersey/press-releases/0624
Dec 1, 2015 - New Jersey has been impacted by climate change more than any other state in the nation. ... during high tide, our coastal wetlands are disappearing; all while ... in Paris, but it is not a surprise that Christie denies climate change ... New Jersey is the worst state in the nation when it comes to flooding damage
I was in my waders in three feet of water and my friend is saying Gov. Christie is on TV saying it's not that bad," said Maggie Day, owner of Nesting children's boutique on Third Avenue, whose home and shop sustained damage from flood waters similar to during Sandy. "Oh yeah? Gov. Christie should come down here and get in his fishing waders and live my life."
ReplyDeleteShe said the shop would require gutting as in Sandy. And her house had water damage in the crawl space. She had neither the time nor money to raise after Sandy. "When your house is wrecked and your business is wrecked and your business pays your mortgage, how do you pay your mortgage?"
She stressed she and other locals were nt the million dollar home owners, but people trying to make a living. "We're not those people," she said.
"You don't expect three in five years," she said. "You expect it about every 20 years. We had Irene, Sandy and now this. You're barely back on your feet financially."
Others in town also took umbrage at Christie's comments minimizing their damage. Christie repeatedly made the point that those in Cape May County saying it was worse than Sandy were in places where Sandy damage relatively was minimal. But many in these towns still suffered damage three years ago. Kevin Roberts, a spokesman for Christie, said in an email Sunday afternoon that the governor was paying special attention to areas affected like Cape May County and "acknowledges the most affected areas and the expeditious resonse and resources specifically being directed to them."
"The experts kept telling us that it's not going to be as bad," said Tom Hand of Fred's Tavern, the landmark bar that closed with about a foot and a half of flooding. He said his damage was similar to Sandy, and would requre about a week to reopen. He sustained a couple hundred thousand dollars in damage during Sandy.
In North Wildwood, Mayor Patrick Rosenello said the damage was the worst since the 1962 storm, "absolutely worse than Sandy." Without evacuations, the town's fire department had to use military vehicles to get hundreds of people out of their flooded homes Saturday, he said.
"When water comes in and electric goes out its a whole other matter. That was really the big push yeserday, to get people out of their flooded dark cold home. We moved hundreds of people."
He said he hoped Christie's statements would not translate into any less aid for those with damage to homes and shops. He said beaches and beach protection took a hit, with damage to dunes and sea walls.
Even with Christie back in New Hampshire, and his town's streets still flooded and the power still out, Rosenello said he would not speculate on why Christie seemed to downplay the hit the shore took during the storm.
"I'm not going to speculate on whether his position on this storm is in any way shape or form related to his presidential ambitions," he said. "We’re focused on assessing damage, getting people back to their homes. "
In Stone Harbor, the flooding from the third high tide of Jonas was beginning to creep back onto roads, and the island was still without power. Pat Langford, 60, wading through water on 99th Street near 3d in high boots, said she was angry that residents weren't ordered to evacuate. She said she was trapped on the island Saturday with no heat and with her 84 year old mother. They eventually got to a relative's house nearby who had a generator, she said.
"The Mayor should have made us evacuate," she said. If I had an emergency, we couldn't have gotten off the island. We evacuated in Sandy. This was worse than Sandy. There's a lot of elderly people here. I made my mother stay in bed with blankets over her
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/downashore/Stuck-in-Stone-Harbor-Should-have-made-us-evacuate.html#vVBoLuzQwxf223iq.99
As someone who used to live in NJ,and whose 86 year old mother had to come here to Louisiana after Sandy destroyed her home,the people who are in areas that flood like this need to move. Global warming is raising the the level of the oceans with the polar ice melting. Things are n ot going to get better.There are towns in Cape May county that have lost entire streets of ocean front property long before Sandy even. It's time to wise up and think logically.
DeleteHere's to hoping Christie joins Snyder and McDonnell in prison
DeleteWith no soap on a rope, either.
DeleteI read that the barrel the oil is contained in is worth more than the oily contents
ReplyDeleteThe issue is Alaska doesn't tax fish at the dock. Without that sort of a tax structure alaska could be pulling gold nuggets out of the ocean and it wouldn't put a dime into the treasury. Oil is all they have that produces tax revenue. They need to change their tax structure so it isn't so vulnerable to oil prices. Find a way to tax fish and timber and tourists.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather have the fish protected than oil.
ReplyDeleteFish oil biodiesel.
Delete(actually it has been done).
2 fish with one stone.