Chadwick was my fishing guide in early August while chasing sockeye salmon on the Kenai River. Sockeye salmon are widely considered the tastiest of Alaska’s five salmon species; the first ...

“It’s a really good day,” he said. “Bringing my kids out to get some meat.” ...

For Alaska sockeye salmon, record highs in Bristol Bay, record lows nearly everywhere else. ... Sockeye fishing at Yakutat has been closed due to the lowest returns in 50 years; ...

Salmon harvests across Alaska are slow so far as the fisheries head toward their usual high points in July. So far, fishermen have landed about 5.8 million salmon. That’s less than half of the ...

According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, fishermen in the Shumagin Islands and South Unimak areas harvested about ...

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 ...

Sockeye salmon stack up in a hold during the height of the sockeye season in Bristol Bay, Alaska. Credit: Nathaniel Wilder Posted in June 1, 2020: Dissent at a Distance Fish Climate change has ...

There are five kinds of salmon in Alaska: Chinook, sockeye, chum, coho and pink. ... as a result, state and federal fishery managers have closed chum fishing on the Yukon.

This year, more than 78 million sockeye salmon returned to the estuaries of Western Alaska, a record high and a stark contrast with most salmon populations elsewhere as urban infrastructure and ...

Five years in a row now, more than 50 million sockeye salmon have returned to Bristol Bay. In 2018, an all-time high of more than 62 million adult fish returned to the bay, the biggest sockeye run ...