about Alaska:
- The first Olive Garden restaurant in Alaska will open here in Anchorage, next month.
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- The International Pacific Halibut Commission has recommended limiting next year's catch to one per person, and wants to lower the commercial take from over 40 million to only 11 million. Why should you care, you ask? Because that will effectively triple (or more) the price of halibut throughout the entire country. Most of America's salmon, crab, halibut, and herring come from Alaska.
- In 1915 the record high temperature in Alaska was 100 degrees Fahrenheit at Fort Yukon; the record low temperature was -80 degrees Fahrenheit at Prospect Creek Camp in 1971.
- Alaska has about one registered pilot for every 58 residents, six times as many pilots per capita and 14 times as many airplanes per capita as the rest of the United States.
- The Defense Department cuts you've been hearing so much about are having an effect. Alaska stands to lose 78 civilian positions. (I have to admit I'm having a bit of trouble worrying about that particular factoid, amongst all the other things clamoring for my attention.) Notice there's no reduction in troops - at least, not yet.
- There's an International Pacific Halibut Commission. Who knew?
3 comments:
Love the facts, keep it up.
Sure hope the International Pacific Halibut Commission is using real science to back up the need for a reduction in catch.
My understanding on the lowest temperature is -80 is as far down as the instruments officially measure. The actual temperature may have been lower.
I've been out in -70. 15 minutes. That long because I had 8 minutes of insulation. Only took 7 minutes to return. Don't see any need to repeat the experience.
:)
Q
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