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 ...

A petition to list many Alaska king salmon stocks as endangered has cleared its first hurdle. As first reported by the Northern Journal, it’s mainly a bureaucratic step for the petition, from the ...

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 ...

Tad Fujioka always had great problem-solving skills. After studying and working as an engineer, he left the field 14 years ago to become a troll fisherman based in Sitka, Alaska. "If you’re good at ...

Scientists are mostly forecasting that Chinook salmon runs in Southeast Alaska will be well within targeted goals this year. But one river near Ketchikan is an exception.

A Washington state-based conservation group filed a lawsuit this week in an effort to speed up the federal government’s review of a proposal to list king salmon as threatened or endangered across the ...

An emergency order requiring all king salmon caught by sportfishers in Southeast Alaska salt waters to be released unharmed between Monday and Oct. 1 was issued by the state Department of Fish and ...

This photo was taken during a july vacation to Alaska. Blake Ritter, son of Angie and Brian Ritter of Cape Girardeau, is standing with his 50 pound king salmon he caught (right) and his dad's 30 pound ...

HOUSTON — Alaska Wildland Adventures offers guided fishing trips on the Kenai River, where the sockeye salmon swimming upstream are a tourist’s ultimate prize. Peak salmon season starts around May and ...

A Washington state-based environmental group says it’s filing a petition asking the Biden administration to list southern Alaska king salmon as an endangered species — following through on notice of ...