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 ...

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, ...

Petersburg troller Mark Roberts working on his fishing vessel, the Cape Cross, on May 24, 2024. (Photo by Shelby Herbert/KFSK) The federal government is considering a request that would grant Gulf of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 is a developing story. Many Juneau-area waters will be closed to king salmon fishing starting Monday and remain closed until Aug. 31 due to a low projected spawning population, according to an ...

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 ...

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 ...