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.” ...

Per fish counts available from the department, 471,000 sockeye have been counted so far this year — with 108,000 counted on ...

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

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 ...

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; ...

Fishing for sockeye is hard labor. ... Last year, Alaska’s sockeye salmon industry suffered from a worker shortage. This year, salmon are plentiful and selling at robust prices.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...