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.

The size trend was strongest in Alaska, where some Chinook populations of the same age measured about 10 percent shorter today than decades ago. But that’s only half the trend.

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 ...

This year, however, abysmally low salmon runs in the Yukon River have led Alaska’s Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) to impose a moratorium on fishing for Chinook (or King) and Chum salmon in ...

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.

Some of the chinook swimming off Alaska’s southeast coast this time of year started their lives nearby, but others are from British Columbia or as far south as Oregon and California.

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 ...

Western Alaska’s chinook and chum crashed simultaneously around 2000, she said, but both species saw large returns within a few years. Today, ...