homeWelcome, sign in or click here to subscribe.login
     


 

 

Construction


Subscriber content preview

June 24, 2016

Alaska town builds a ‘reverse bird cage'

By MICHAEL ARMSTRONG
The Homer News

HOMER, Alaska — On a good day when fishermen pull sea-bright king salmon out of the Nick Dudiak Fishing Lagoon faster than the tide runs, the cleaning tables fill up with people cleaning their catch. You'd better watch your back — and the sky — lest a ravenous gull scoops down and snags a fish.

“While trying to fillet their catches, anglers were under siege by a squadron of sky rats with the manners of turkey buzzards jazzed after power wolfing a commercial tanker of Red Bull,” is how Homer News fishing columnist Nick Varney once described the assault.


 
. . .


To read this story in full login or purchase a subscription.




Email or user name:
Password:
 
Forgot password? Click here.