In the debate over what is driving the Western Alaska chinook, or king, salmon crisis, the commercial trawl industry has faced no shortage of criticism over the issue of bycatch.

The Alaska Department of Fish & Game issued its 2024 Southeast Alaska Chinook Salmon forecasts last week. Of the 11 chinook stocks in the region, only the Chilkat River is expected to have an ...

While I’m an Alaska whale biologist, I’m as concerned about declining chinook salmon numbers as I am any marine mammal. Chinook, or king salmon, are essential to a healthy Alaska, for people ...

Southeast Alaska fishermen discovered last week that harvest limits for chinook salmon in 2025 will be almost 40% less than last year’s. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced an ...

Juvenile chinook salmon, also known as king salmon, are seen on July 12, 2006, swimming in the water in Togiak National Wildlife Refuge in Southwest Alaska.

A U.S. district court has affirmed a deadline for NOAA Fisheries to release a decision on whether Alaska Chinook salmon should be protected under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) after the agency ...

Nearly 20,000 Chinook salmon were caught inadvertently as bycatch in the pollock fishery in the Gulf of Alaska, shutting it down early and sparking outrage among orca scientists and wild salmon ...

Greens sue NOAA over delayed ESA decision on Alaska chinook salmon. By Daniel Cusick | 05/20/2025 01:34 PM EDT . NOAA Fisheries initated a status review on Gulf of Alaska chinook in May 2024.

In 2019, NOAA Fisheries approved the most recent decade-long plan for the commercial troll fishery for Chinook in Southeast Alaska, with harvest limits set during negotiations between the U.S. and ...

Fewer than 500,000 adult Chinook were estimated to have passed through the Salish Sea in 2018, a 60% reduction in abundance since the Pacific Salmon Commission began tracking the data in 1984 ...

A Washington-based conservation group whose actions have already caused the closure of an iconic Southeast Alaska fishery is now planning to ask the federal government to list several Alaska king ...

Chinook salmon in our waters are affected by sport and commercial salmon fisheries in Southeast Alaska, so an ESA listing would impact our treaty resources too.