UPDATE: This story has been updated with the Board of Fisheries meeting July 17 to discuss whether sockeye salmon runs are being reduced by the large production of hatchery pink salmon in […]
Salmon rising
Up is down
With annual returns of prized Chinook salmon to Alaska’s fabled Copper River creeping steadily downward, the state Board of Fisheries is meeting in Valdez to consider reducing the spawning goal for the […]
A Chinook victory
A complicated and sometimes contentious Copper River salmon season is coming to an end with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game seemingly in position to declare mission accomplished. State fishery managers […]
War of roads’
Public hearings on a plan to settle a lawsuit over public access to a remote road in East Central Alaska were a sham, says a vice-president of Safari Club International. Communications […]
State of the kings
For the first time in years, king salmon are showing signs of making a stronger return to the vast wilderness surrounding Alaska’s urban heartland. While Panhandle runs continue to struggle, kings to […]
So many kings
With the commercial catch of king salmon off the mouth of the Copper River steadily growing, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has gone all in on the idea that a […]
