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 ...

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 ...

Angler William Kneer IV ties the IGFA All-Tackle Length World Record for sockeye salmon in Alaska’s Kisaralik River using a KVD Swim Jig. ... A Legendary 57.5-Inch Catch / Art Weston.

According to a paper in Nature that Moore co-authored in 2021, nearly 4,000 miles of new salmon streams could appear in Alaska and northwestern Canada by the end of the century. The gains could be ...

Aside from their special Area M operation, wildlife troopers conducted their regular summer patrols in the Bristol Bay fishery, source of approximately half of the world’s harvested sockeye salmon.

Wild salmon are Alaska’s legacy; hatchery salmon are not. This distinction creates confusion in management, marketing and harvesting because we don’t universally acknowledge the difference.

KENAI, Alaska—Sockeye salmon are plentiful in the waters off this peninsula south of Anchorage, but Brent Johnson isn’t allowed to catch them. In an effort to save the king salmon, whose ...