Tenders tie up at the processor’s docks, where a tube sucks salmon out of the hold and pumps them into a room-sized vat of ...

On a lonely skiff in Bristol Bay, a five-pound salmon thrashes under my gloves as I wrestle it out of the gill net. It’s 10 p.m. in Alaska, where I’ve joined a crew of three aboard the Baby ...

On a lonely skiff in Bristol Bay, a five-pound salmon thrashes under my gloves as I wrestle it out of the gill net. It’s 10 p.m. in Alaska, where I’ve joined a crew of three aboard the Baby ...

Without stronger laws, Bristol Bay remains under threat from mining claims that endanger salmon and local communities.

Bristol Bay, Alaska — Communities in this rural fishing region, site of the world’s largest sockeye salmon run that draws thousands of workers each year, are defined, in part, by their isolation.

All five salmon-fishing districts in Bristol Bay -- the Ugashik, Egegik, Naknek/Kvichak, Nushagak and Togiak -- were seeing regular openings managed by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

The event, a mainstay of the start of the region’s fishing season, will celebrate it’s quarter-century of service with music, door prizes and, of course, more life vest and water safety give ...

The sockeye salmon harvest in Alaska's Bristol Bay remains strong and early, with the westside Nushagak District accounting for most of the cumulative catch to date.

Clark Pederson, deckhand aboard the F/V Northwestern, sorts crab on the vessel’s sorting table. Discovery Channel photo.

Sport fishing for wild king salmon in Southeast Alaska is now more restricted for some people. Nonresident anglers can no ...