A can of salmon forgotten since the 1970s has turned out to be an unexpected window into the past. Researchers at the ...

Anglers might face low sockeye catch rates due to lower run size and heavy weeds. Success hinges on locating river 'sweet spots' shaped by current and terrain shifts. Dam operations affect river ...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game released its preliminary summary of the 2025 Upper Cook Inlet salmon fishery season.

Preliminary forecasts estimate between 15,000 to 16,000 sockeye salmon returning, while there were upwards of 300,000 fish ...

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

COOPER LANDING — Sockeye salmon are running on the Kenai Peninsula and fishermen are taking note. Crowds flooded the Russian and Kenai Rivers over the past week as the Russian reached its early-run ...

Summer in Soldotna, Alaska, is full of long days; July 1 is a 19-hour day and the 31st of August runs nearly 14 and a half hours. For fishing guide Andrew Chadwick, long days are just part of the job.

The Alaska Department of Fish & Game is predicting that more than 75 million sockeye will return to Bristol Bay this summer, topping the largest salmon run on record. The harvest of Bristol Bay ...

Sockeye salmon are returning to the Columbia River at numbers far higher than predicted by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, bringing expanded fishing opportunities this summer.

Editor’s Note: Alan Liere is on vacation, so he wrote about sockeye fishing instead of his weekly fish-hunt report. In July, I hope to fish again for sockeye salmon at the mouth of the Okanogan River ...

Some of us have been fighting for salmon for more than three decades. To understand the resolve of salmon advocates — and the frustration so many of us felt when the federal government recently ...

State biologists are projecting a mixed bag of returns this spring and summer for Southcentral’s popular sockeye salmon fisheries. Alaska Department of Fish and Game officials on Feb. 7 issued a ...