Commercial fishers harvesting from Alaska’s Upper Cook Inlet saw an above average season in 2025, with a run of 12 million ...

NPS Photo / T. Quinn. 2006. The world’s largest sockeye salmon run was larger than average this year, but the percentage of those fish that were harvested commercially was lower than normal, and ...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game released its preliminary summary of the 2025 Upper Cook Inlet salmon fishery season. The report found that although numbers of all salmon species besides sockeye ...

Seattle’s fishing culture is something to be proud of. Drive over the Ballard Bridge on any given day and you’ll see the ...

I was taken out to our set net site to experience the work of fishing long before I was old enough to officially join my ...

A Bristol Bay sockeye salmon "mob" gathers in August 2004 in the Wood River, which flows into the Nushagak River just north of Dillingham, the region's largest community. The Alaska Department of Fish ...

"When king salmon were the target species, it really paid to have a guide, because there's a lot more expertise that goes into that," said Monte Roberts, president of the Kenai River Professional ...

The roots of disaster Part 1 of a 4-part series Thirty-five years ago, Alaska politicians and the politically powerful commercial fishing interests that had long punched above their economic ...

Every summer, many rivers across Alaska appear as if they have caught fire. The water turns a deep, almost impossible red as ...