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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Aficionados of wild Alaska salmon are stocking up at retail shops on sockeye fillets from the Copper River to Bristol Bay and beyond as the commercial salmon season goes into full swing, paying from ...

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 ...

An eye-opening adventure through Alaska’s wild ... is the final stop of the sockeye I’ve been tracking from Bristol Bay." Deb turns out to be a Canadian expat with a winsome smile. In season, she buys ...

Put a Sockeye in It Alaska's biodiverse sea stock typically fuels a $6-billion-a-year fishing industry. But in the Kenai River, one of the state's most heavily fished regions, it's a tale of two fish.

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.