Southeast Alaska’s treaty-determined Chinook salmon catch limit returns to normal levels

Fishers in Southeast Alaska will be allowed to harvest 205,300 Chinook salmon this year, returning to a normal total after ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Cooler full of salmon? Here are 13 Alaska recipes, plus tips for maximizing your catch

Lots of Alaskans are headed out fishing this weekend in Southcentral. If your cooler’s full and you’re looking for help with your catch, we have video guides from locals on how to fillet and grill it, ...
Islands on MSN

Alaska's 5 best fishing destinations, according to anglers

Alaska offers exceptional angling opportunities across rivers, lakes, and coastal waters, with destinations known for salmon ...
USA Today

Alaska lawmakers, residents ask feds to limit how much salmon industrial trawlers catch

U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, Alaskan Natives and family-owned fisheries are looking for a sea change in the fishing rights battle between local fishermen and industrial trawling fishing operations after a ...
Alaska Dispatch News

With few exceptions, Southcentral Alaska’s coho salmon run is sluggish

Jeremy Salvador was all smiles on Tuesday as he processed three silver salmon at the cleaning table at Anchorage’s Ship Creek Bridge. Salvador has been reaching his limit of three silvers regularly, ...
Yakima Herald-Republic

Bycatch of nearly 20,000 Chinook salmon shuts down Alaska trawl fishery

The gulf of Alaska is a nursery ground for salmon from Washington rivers. Catching immature salmon is putting selective pressure on the species toward younger and smaller fish, MacDuffee said, when ...
Wall Street Journal

Alaska Fishermen Struggle as Rules to Save King Salmon Limit Their Catch

KENAI, Alaska—Sockeye salmon are plentiful in the waters off this peninsula south of Anchorage, but Brent Johnson isn’t allowed to catch them. In an effort to save the king salmon, whose numbers have ...
Juneau Empire

‘Huge disaster’: Historically weak pink salmon runs strain Alaska’s seine fishermen

Expectations were low this year for the pink salmon runs that power Prince William Sound’s commercial fishing industry. But no one expected them to be as bad as they’ve been. With just a few weeks ...