This week in what are you doing?: Backyard Fish
Unreal! Wild and crazy legislators in Alaska – a state that banned net-pen fish farming in 1989 in part because of fears some of the …
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A battle over Alaska Native fishing rights heats up
When salmon all but vanished from western Alaska in 2021, thousands of people in the region faced disaster. Rural families lost a critical food source. …
School of Fish
“School of Fish” offers an intimate portrait inside one family’s seasonal salmon rituals and their connection to the Bristol Bay Fly Fishing and Guide Academy, …
Royal Wolf Lodge + Color
Director of Photography Austin Walsh and Filmmaker Blake Kresge filmed in Alaska for a week. The voiceover is a poem in the public domain called …
Poor king salmon runs close Kenai Peninsula rivers to fishing
Poor runs had already closed the Kenai River to king salmon fishing this June. And this week, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is …
What’s Alaska’s Dirty Secret?
Alaska needs to move its interception fisheries away from areas where B.C. salmon are returning to spawn to inside waters where Alaskans can still catch …
Groups urge Alaska to protect B.C.- bound salmon
A coalition of Canadian groups is calling on Alaska’s governor to stop the state’s harvest of Canadian-bound salmon, while it criticizes the international treaty that …
Advocates: Pacific Salmon Treaty failing to address harvest of struggling B.C. stocks
Significant numbers of salmon returning to spawn in British Columbia are being caught in southeast Alaskan fisheries, hindering Canada’s efforts to preserve and rebuild stocks …
Southeast Alaska commercial salmon harvest 4 times higher than last year
While salmon runs struggle throughout a large portion of their range, not the case in the great state of Alaska. Science is beginning to show …
In Alaska, the Salmon Catch Hints at the Chaos of Climate Change
Historically low runs on the Yukon River have devastating impacts for Alaskans relying on the fish for sustenance and tradition, but Bristol Bay is seeing …