NAKNEK — Record-breaking numbers of sockeye salmon have returned to southwest Alaska’s Bristol Bay and the tally is expected to climb higher in the days ahead. As of Thursday, fishing crews ...

Residents of Bristol Bay communities received 712 drift gillnet permits in 1975. By 2021, they held 308 of these permits. Residents of Bristol Bay communities received 660 beach-based setnet ...

Leaking diesel fuel from a sunken Bristol Bay fishing vessel led the state Department of Fish and Game to shut down a key setnet fishery and close an area for drift gillnet boats Friday afternoon.

Commercial drift gillnet boats must measure 32 feet or less to fish in the bay. And the fleet got a finger-wagging from the Alaska Wildlife Troopers earlier this year.

Pride of Bristol Bay: True stories from a fishing photographer. The lens doesn’t like. Fishermen on the otherhand… By Bjorn Dihle; Thursday, November 19, 2020 12:03pm ...

Well, the July 9 trade deadline set by US president Donald Trump has arrived … but pump the brakes! It's not exactly tariff time. Reporter Jacob Resneck checks in from Alaska, where he's been ...

Wild salmon is abundant in Alaska and coveted by chefs — but most Americans eat the cheaper, milder farmed kind. Journalist ...

Bristol Bay sits in southwestern Alaska, due north of the Alaskan Peninsula and roughly 300 miles southwest of Anchorage. The descriptor is a catchall for the area containing the many watersheds ...

For months leading up to my visit to Alaska’s Tikchik Narrows Lodge, I’d been fantasizing about two personal angling milestones – landing a king salmon on a fly rod and catching a 24-inch ...

NAKNEK, Alaska — Record-breaking numbers of sockeye salmon have returned to southwest Alaska’s Bristol Bay, and the tally is expected to climb higher in the days ahead. As of Thursday, fishing ...

This week on AK, we go fishing. Most fly fishing guides in Bristol Bay come from Outside. But the Bristol Bay Fly fishing and Guide Academy is working to train young people from the region.