The Flight Deck has a sense of place, a welcoming attitude and a feeling that there is someone that cares behind the curtain. There is a vibe, a real feeling that it’s not just any restaurant at any airstrip.

What is sustainable pork production? It isn’t a hog raised in industrialized factory farm or Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO), it isn’t a tend and it isn’t being championed by the hypocrites like Paul Deen at the Food Network.

So what is it?

Ivory salmon is a luxurious white fleshed King salmon native to certain rivers of Southeast Alaska and Canada. Most salmon get their typical red or pink color from carotene in the food they eat, but white or ivory Kings are genetically predisposed with an extra enzyme to process carotene rather than collect it in their [...]

The Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) canceled the 2009 troll (ocean caught) Oregon and California commercial Wild Chinook salmon season. This marks the second year in a row.

Is a lush green lawn and suburbs in the dessert more important than one of our wild natural resources and one one of our most important coastal businesses?

It’s an overcast, gray afternoon in Astoria, Oregon. There’s a chill in the misty, salty air, partly from the proximity of the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean and partly from being February. A group of friends – some are fishermen, some are seafood processors and one is a chef – meet at fairly secluded area of rocky beach just south of the jetty and the wreck of the Peter Iredale. It’s low tide and it’s time to go digging for razor clams.