Alaska’s Bristol Bay sockeye run and harvest increased this year, with fish sizes a bit bigger

The commercial salmon harvest in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, site of the world’s largest sockeye salmon runs, held a mixture of ...
Alaska Beacon

Alaska Supreme Court upholds dismissal of lawsuit challenging Yukon-Kuskokwim salmon management

If the court had allowed the lawsuit, wrote Justice Dario Borghesan, it would have amounted to “judicial management of the ...
SeafoodSource

Alaska Bristol Bay salmon season surged past expectations in 2025

A 24 September summary of the 2025 commercial season released by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s Division of ...
Yahoo

Marquee Alaska sockeye run was bigger than expected, but the individual fish were small

NPS Photo / T. Quinn. 2006. The world’s largest sockeye salmon run was larger than average this year, but the percentage of those fish that were harvested commercially was lower than normal, and ...
The News-Gazette

King salmon's disappearance has changed Alaska's Kenai River, but a soaring sockeye run is keeping it in business

SOLDOTNA, Alaska — A trio of anglers leaned on the edge of Jordan Carter's boat in shallow water on the Kenai River last month, victoriously enjoying a cold beverage. Their ride with Carter, a local ...
CU Boulder News & Events

As salmon disappear in warming rivers, Indigenous communities face an uncertain future

For millennia, Indigenous people living in Alaska and Canada’s Yukon territory have relied on Chinook salmon. The large, fatty fish provide essential nutrients for Arctic living and have influenced ...
Alaska Public Media

An influx of chum salmon in the Canadian Arctic could be the same fish missing from Western Alaska

Frankie Dillon displays a chum salmon caught in the Big Fish River, near Aklavik, Northwest Territories, in 2023. (Photo by Colin Gallagher, DFO) Johnnie Storr grew up fishing with his dad in the ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Studies show there are likely more ‘sushi worms’ in Alaska salmon and other fish than there used to be

Allison Little, a middle school assistant principal from Anchorage, has been fishing on the Kasilof River her entire adult life, so she’s used to seeing wormy parasites coiled up in fish on occasion.