The Pilot Station sonar site consists of two counting stations located across from one another on the banks of the lower Yukon River. From the perspective of a boat floating downstream, the site’s ...

Salmon runs on the Yukon River continued to be anemic this year, federal and state agencies reported, and there are far too few fish reaching Canada to meet goals set in a treaty between that nation ...

EAGLE VILLAGE, Alaska - When Jody Potts-Joseph was growing up, her family mushed sled dogs during the harsh Alaskan winters to hunt and trap, feeding them salmon caught from the Yukon River by the ...

STEVENS VILLAGE, Alaska — In a normal year, the smokehouses and drying racks that Alaska Natives use to prepare salmon to tide them through the winter would be heavy with fish meat, the fruits of a ...

Maggie Westlock picked up a few things for dinner at the AC store in Emmonak, near the mouth of the Yukon River. In her cart she had grapes, coleslaw, sandwiches and some canned ham. These are not the ...

Two salmon species have all but disappeared from Alaska’s Yukon River this year, prompting the state to shut down fishing in an effort to save them STEVENS VILLAGE, Alaska (AP) — In a normal year, the ...

Serena Fitka sat in the cabin of a flat-bottomed aluminum boat as it sped down the Yukon River in western Alaska, recalling how the river once ran thick with salmon. Each summer, in the Yup’ik village ...

After last year’s disastrous king and chum salmon runs on the Yukon River, observers witnessing crashing fish stocks and the devastating impact of subsistence fishing closures along the length of the ...

Michael Williams scans the shoreline for moose while traveling up the Yukon River on Sept. 14 near Stevens Village, Alaska. For the first time in memory, both king and chum salmon have dwindled to ...