Fellows & Editors
Kristan Hutchison
- Trip:
- Fellows Fall 1998
- Affiliation:
- Juneau Empire
- Country:
- Chile
- Year:
- 1998
Kristan Hutchison is a staff writer for the Juneau Empire, the daily newspaper in Alaska’s capital. Since joining the paper in 1995, she has written about local and state government issues, wayward bears and the Iditarod Sled Dog Race. Previously, she worked as a staff writer and arts editor for the Bainbridge Review in Washington State. Earlier, she was an intern at WAMC public radio in Albany and at the Washington bureau of the St. Louis Post Dispatch. She graduated from Bard College in 1992 with a B.A. in political science. She has also studied in the summer Institute for Political Journalism at Georgetown University.
Stories
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The Next Generation: Where the Global Seafood Industry is Going
Fall, 1998 -- Fish of the future look pretty tame. Farmed salmon are just the start. Most other species fished in Alaska are also being grown somewhere else, either experimentally or commercially. ``It...
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Reshaping Fishing’s Future
Fall, 1998 -- Alaska doesn't have to take down the ``gone fishing'' sign yet, but it may need adjustment. ``Some of the Wild West ways of our fisheries just are not going to...
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Spawning Environmental Worries
Fall, 1998 -- The fishing was good, but the salmon were bad. Tourists casting lines for salmon near Puerto Cisnes in southern Chile reeled in thin fish with flaking scales last April. So...
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Pinching Pennies for a Market Edge
Fall, 1998 -- Lorenzo Wiese-Hansen watches his salmon on a video screen as he tosses food pellets, which sink into the water like pennies. As soon as the salmon stop nibbling, he stops...
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Are fishermen on endangered list?
Fall, 1998 -- The world is in transition from fished to farmed seafood, putting Southeast jobs in jeopardy. Salmon fishermen may follow buffalo hunters into the history books. Already, salmon raised in floating...
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