The Alaska Board of Fisheries has announced a reduction in fishing opportunity for chum salmon by 30 per cent in southwest ...
Kelcee Smith stared into the water at Big Creek Hatchery one recent November morning, watching as dozens of chum salmon circled below. Chum return to Big Creek from the ocean every fall to spawn, but ...
One particularly cheap variety of fish may be tempting from a budget perspective, but other factors may cause you to think ...
Frankie Dillon displays a chum salmon caught in the Big Fish River, near Aklavik, Northwest Territories, in 2023. (Photo by Colin Gallagher, DFO) Johnnie Storr grew up fishing with his dad in the ...
The Alaska Board of Fisheries voted 4-3 this week to cut June fishing time in the Area M salmon fishery by roughly a third — ...
In an effort to protect chum bound for Western Alaska rivers, the board has approved some of the most severe restrictions in ...
This year's overall global chum salmon catch has the potential to be similar to last year's total of 71 million fish and 200,000 metric tons, based on a combination of forecast and landings data, the ...
Federal officials will close salmon fishing later this month in parts of the Tanana River due to low projected returns of chinook and summer chum salmon. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a ...
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 ...
It’s been three years since a crash in king salmon populations forced an outright ban on fishing for them in the Yukon River. And barring an unexpected recovery, residents along the river won’t be ...
In Western Alaska’s Kuskokwim River, site of devastating salmon crashes and federal-state management disputes in recent years, fish returns showed some positive glimmers this year, according to ...