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 ...

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 ...

Add Yakutat’s wild sockeye run to a growing list of struggling Alaska salmon stocks. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game shut down set net fishermen in the Yakutat District on Thursday after ...

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 ...