Wild salmon is abundant in Alaska and coveted by chefs — but most Americans eat the cheaper, milder farmed kind. Journalist Kim Cross set out to learn why — and how to cook the real thing right.

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One is a Hydroprocessed Esters and Fatty Acids, or HEFA, process using organic material like fish oil from Alaska seafood processing plants to produce synthetic kerosene for blending.

In 2015, the community built a fish processing plant that the tribe collectively owns; they envisioned a scenario in which tribal members would not need to share revenue with processing companies ...

This floating fish processing plant, nearly 350 feet long, processes 100,000 fish per hour, operating as a self-contained factory below deck where 140 crew members work tirelessly under freezing ...

Workers process sockeye salmon at a Bristol Bay seafood processing plant in 2022. (Loren Holmes / ADN) Gov. Mike Dunleavy made waves recently when he proposed that Alaska get into the fish farming ...

Alaska processors, instead of investing in automating their plants, subsequently shipped the frozen fish to other parts of Asia in the search of cheap labor to help them compete with salmon farmers ...

Alaska’s fisheries, vital to the state’s economy and culture, are facing an unprecedented crisis. Collapsing fish prices, processor bankruptcies, and community-wide financial struggles are compounded ...

The company that operated the sprawling but shuttered fish processing plant in King Cove must do annual seafloor surveys to check for impacts of waste deposits there and take other corrective ...

The company that operated the sprawling but shuttered fish processing plant in King Cove must do annual seafloor surveys to check for impacts of waste deposits there and take other corrective actions ...

The idled Peter Pan Seafood Co. plant in King Cove shows little sign of activity. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) The company that operated the sprawling but shuttered fish processing plant in ...