A Washington-based conservation group filed a petition with federal regulators Wednesday, requesting that they list Alaska king salmon as an endangered species. The Wild Fish Conservancy argued in its ...
A Chinook salmon. (Ryan Hagerty/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) A Washington state-based environmental group says it’s filing a petition asking the Biden administration to list southern Alaska king ...
A federal fisheries agency on Thursday launched a 12-month review to determine if Alaska king salmon should be listed as an endangered or threatened species. The National Marine Fisheries Service will ...
The municipal government in Petersburg, Alaska, located in the US state's Southeast region, is the latest crying foul over an attempt by a Washington state environmental group to have king salmon ...
Environmentalists are suing NOAA for failing to issue an Endangered Species Act listing decision for Gulf of Alaska chinook salmon within one year of receiving a petition to protect the species. In a ...
Researchers have shown that levels of anisakid worms -- a common marine parasite -- rose in two salmon species in the Gulf of Alaska and Bristol Bay over a 42-year period. The team discovered this by ...
Salmon spread across the deck of a fishing vessel during last summer's record season in Bristol Bay. (Hope McKenney/KUCB) The world’s largest sockeye salmon run was larger than average this year, but ...
Environmentalists had argued that the fishing was hurting killer whales, which depend on salmon for survival. A federal appeals court ruled Friday that an Alaska salmon fishery can continue operation ...
Once-pristine Alaska rivers like the Salmon are turning orange as thawing permafrost releases toxic metals, threatening ...
A Washington state-based environmental group says it’s filing a petition asking the Biden administration to list southern Alaska king salmon as an endangered species — following through on notice of ...
A Washington state-based conservation group filed a lawsuit this week in an effort to speed up the federal government’s review of a proposal to list king salmon as threatened or endangered across the ...