Commercial sockeye fishing in Yakutat has been closed due to historic low returns, leaving set-netters in a bind until coho and chum season later in the summer. Unlike other salmon fisheries around ...

The Alaska Board of Fisheries has turned down a proposal to halt sport fishing for all salmon species in the Situk River drainage near Yakutat. Correction: The biological escapement goal for Chinook ...

Our drift boats were staged at the bridge, waiting for us. We were hungry for steelhead. Trey, a 40-something from Wyoming; his dad, Vernon Scharp; my dad, Don; my brother-in-law Shannon Winters; and ...

Correction: The biological escapement goal for Chinook on the Situk River is 450-1050, not 450-1000, as this article previously stated based on meeting materials. The Empire would also like to clarify ...