It took Riley Neal three and a half hours, a borrowed net, and a whole lot of grit to land the 51-pound king salmon he hooked ...

Bristol Bay’s sockeye salmon run totaled 51.6 million fish, more than a third higher than the preseason forecast of 37.9 million fish and about 7% higher than the average over the past 20 years ...

The Russian River Sanctuary Area will open for sockeye fishing on July 1, two weeks early. Over 22,700 sockeye have passed ...

Salmon runs across Alaska have varied drastically this year depending on region and species. The Kenai River sockeye run has been strong. In Bristol Bay, commercial fishing operations have been ...

Alaska, though, is the outlier in the U.S. Its salmon runs are declining in some places, and its fisheries aren’t immune to problems or closures, but in terms of sheer salmon abundance, nowhere else ...

Alaska’s Bristol Bay salmon run shatters records, and is not done yet . July 15, 2022 at 6:00 pm Updated July 16, 2022 at 10:05 am . By . Hal Bernton. Seattle Times staff reporter.

Alaska officials forecast improvements for the state’s commercial salmon harvest. Total catch is projected to be twice the size of last year’s weak harvest.

Alaska Congresswoman speaks on bycatch, sustainability and fishery management's impacts on subsistence communities. ... [salmon] run is not as poor as it is.

With few exceptions, Southcentral Alaska's coho salmon run is sluggish. Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska. Mon, August 5, 2024 at 3:59 AM UTC. 6 min read.

Pink salmon are the most abundant and low-priced of all five Alaska salmon species. But last year’s harvest of about 40 million pink salmon was considered abysmal, even taking into account the ...