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 ...

Expert captains, top quality boats and a beautiful setting are the keys to a great fishing trip. For avid anglers, fishing for wild salmon in Alaska is a Bucket List trip. But for everyone else, just ...

This article was originally featured on High Country News. Every June, Serena Fitka goes home to her Yup’ik community of St. Mary’s, Alaska, near the confluence of the Yukon and Andreafsky rivers in ...

Those arguments have done little to assuage frustration in Alaska’s salmon industry.

HOMER — On a brilliant spring morning, Buck Laukitis, a longtime fisherman from this Kenai Peninsula town, stood at the city dock watching his catch come ashore. Crew members aboard Laukitis’ boat, ...

Brown bears in Alaska have developed a unique hunting technique when it comes to salmon -- standing on the edge of a waterfall, catching fish as they attempt to swim upstream. Nick Dale, a wildlife ...

A federal judge in Washington state issued a ruling this week that threatens to shut down trolling for king salmon in Southeast Alaska this summer. The ruling comes in a lawsuit filed three years ago ...

The Alaska Legislature cannot shut down industrial trawling in federal waters by itself. It cannot legislate away climate ...

The remote Aleutian Islands are a group of 14 large volcanic islands and 55 smaller islands, mostly belonging to the state of Alaska, known for challenging weather and strong winds. But that has never ...

After two lackluster years, skippers of the fleet based in Gig Harbor are back after a successful run fishing for salmon in Alaska. Photo taken on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. Drew Perine ...

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 ...