The sockeye salmon came late to Alaska’s Bristol Bay this year, but now look on track to exceed an Alaska Department of Fish and Game forecast that called for a harvest of […]
Bounty Bay
Where are they?
Unusually low returns of Chinook and sockeye salmon to rivers and streams along the northern rim of the Gulf of Alaska have fisheries scientists wondering what has happened in the wake […]
Halibut hopes
With the Alaska tourism industry – the state’s largest employer – headed for the rocks, charter boat operators hoping to make it through the summer have made a desperate plea to the […]
Our fish
What would normally be a quiet March meeting of the Alaska Board of Fisheries to discuss generic statewide issues is shaping up to be a battle royal over a proposal that could […]
Kenai collapse
News analysis UPDATE: The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is shutting down sockeye salmon fishing in the Kenai River from Cook Inlet to the Kenai Lake bridge in Cooper Landing starting […]
Gone fish
NORTH KENAI BEACH – On these Alaska sands famous for July crowds, the people were few Saturday despite the clouds parting to let in the sun. But then no one comes here […]
Salmon run creeps up
This is a developing story With almost 50,000 sockeye salmon hitting the Kenai River on Monday and another 60,000 going upriver on Tuesday, biologists with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game […]
The fish arrive
If you’re in Alaskan and wanting salmon, get your butt to the Kenai River. After four straight days with Cook Inlet closed to commercial nets because of a faltering sockeye salmon return, […]
The killing season
CHITINA – By late afternoon Wednesday, the winds funneling out of Wood Canyon to the south of the Chitina-McCarthy bridge were driving a Sahara-Desert-style sandstorm across the exposed sandbars off the low […]
