A legal fight is ramping up over who should manage Alaska's dwindling salmon populations—and who gets access to them. By Max Graham/Grist Published Dec 25, 2023 11:00 AM EST This story was originally ...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) is forecasting both a strong pink salmon harvest and a strong chum salmon ...

In Area M, commercial vessels targeting sockeye and pink salmon are allowed to retain and sell incidentally caught chum ...

I live along the Yukon River, where my family has harvested salmon for countless generations. Every summer used to bring the same reassuring sight: Busy fish camps. Full smokehouses. Families coming ...

Shutting down Area M would harm Alaska communities while failing to address the real causes of salmon declines.

For many anglers, an Alaskan fishing adventure is a dream come true. But where do you start? The Kenai River in Alaska is famous for its epic salmon runs, incredible rainbow trout and dolly varden ...

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 ...

This week we are coming at you from the cold waters of Alaska! Ivo and Corrado head out on a charter to fish for those lovely King Salmon around the mountains of Alaska. They are fishing around 320 ...

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 ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. When salmon all but vanished from western Alaska in 2021, thousands of people ...