A management overhaul is needed to address the faltering salmon runs in the Yukon River and the widespread harms that have resulted from shortages of fish along the river’s basin, according to a ...
A week since Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race mushers departed from Fairbanks, top teams were retracing their steps Monday, doubling back northward up the Yukon River in this year’s modified route. By ...
As Yukon chinook and chum salmon numbers decline, monitoring efforts in the territory are being under-reported, say biologists. A recent report provides a broad look at Pacific salmon species in the ...
Last year, Alaska and Canada set a new goal for the number of king salmon returning up the Yukon River and into Canada’s Yukon Territory. Now, fish counters show 2025 returns have again failed to meet ...
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 ...
Intrinsic to the Yukon River are skills shared and carefully honed among families, for generations. Nika Silverfox-Young, a citizen of the Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation in the Yukon, calls this ...