Capital City Weekly Planet Alaska: The art of salmon. There’s an art to knowing salmon and your fishing gear. By Vivian Faith Prescott For the Capital City Weekly ...

For other salmon, climate change is a villain. Chinook – or king – salmon are in terrible decline all over the state, and especially dire on the Yukon River. Meanwhile, sockeye – or reds ...

Back in 1868, the first salmon saltery and cannery in Alaska was built in Klawock Inlet. In the early 1900s, cannery records show a commercial harvest of 80,000 sockeye.

Wild salmon is abundant in Alaska and coveted by chefs — but most Americans eat the cheaper, milder farmed kind. Journalist ...

Meanwhile, sockeye salmon populations in Bristol Bay, Alaska, are thriving with the warmer temperatures. Read more As COP28 nears its end, no agreement in sight to end fossil fuels ...

The breakdown by species includes 46.6 million sockeye salmon (a 203,000 increase), 3.8 million cohos (1.4 million higher), 15.3 million chums (6.7 million more), 296,000 Chinook (up by 4,000) and ...

More than half of all the sockeye caught in the world come from Alaska’s Bristol Bay. WATCH : Dense clouds of Bristol Bay sockeye salmon crowd Alaska's Little Togiak Lake in August 2019.

Below this long finger of land, the Gulf of Alaska stretches as far south as British Columbia, where the Fraser River was once an incredibly productive sockeye fishery that annually saw nearly 10 ...

CORDOVA -- A family with deep roots in Cordova put their cold-smoked Alaska sockeye salmon recipe to the test in the 2014 Alaska Symphony of Seafood and came away a triple-crown winner. Tilgner's ...

The Biden administration’s decision to protect Bristol Bay deals a blow to a huge proposed gold and copper mine in southwest Alaska. The iconic sockeye salmon there has been a source of food for ...

Sockeye salmon play an important role in Alaska’s economy. Up to 30 million salmon are caught each year during the commercial fishing season, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game .

Polluted water from the mine site could enter streams, causing widespread damage in a region that produces nearly 50 percent of the world's wild sockeye salmon, the EPA said.