Starving orcas and the fate of Alaska’s disappearing king salmon . July 19, 2023 at 1:40 pm Updated July 19, 2023 at 2:27 pm . By . Julia O'Malley. The New York Times.

Nonresident anglers fishing in state and federal waters can't retain any chinook salmon that they catch in Southeast Alaska between July 7 and when the season ends Sept. 30, the ...

The story of Alaska’s salmon is more than just a tale of fish. It’s a high-stakes drama—one that pits species against species, neighbor against neighbor, and science against politics.

It took Riley Neal three and a half hours, a borrowed net, and a whole lot of grit to land the 51-pound king salmon he hooked ...

HOUSTON — Alaska Wildland Adventures offers guided fishing trips on the Kenai River, where the sockeye salmon swimming upstream are a tourist’s ultimate prize. Peak salmon season starts around ...

King salmon trolling, which is a style of fishing involving small boats and individual fishing lines dragged through the water, has an estimated economic impact of $85 million in Southeast Alaska ...

It’s hard to believe that, until a couple of decades ago, most wild Pacific salmon was either smoked, canned, or—gasp—turned into cat food. This time of year, of course, there is no richer ...

In Alaska, this wild food, these king salmon, are so important to people’s ability to live in place, and that matters for non-Native people, but in particular, ...

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 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday halted a lower court ruling that would have shut down southeast Alaska’s chinook salmon troll fishery for the summer to protect endangered ...

While the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales don’t typically venture as far north as Alaska, a huge amount of the Chinook salmon caught in the Southeast Alaska troll fishery — about 97 ...