Frankie Dillon displays a chum salmon caught in the Big Fish River, near Aklavik, Northwest Territories, in 2023. (Photo by Colin Gallagher, DFO) Johnnie Storr grew up fishing with his dad in the ...

Federal fishery managers took a step over the weekend toward applying a firm cap on the accidental catches of chum salmon by large vessels trawling for pollock in the Bering Sea, a subject that has ...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are predicting a poor return of chinook and chum salmon to the Yukon area this summer. Like last year, both the federal ...

STEVENS VILLAGE, Alaska — In a normal year, the smokehouses and drying racks that Alaska Natives use to prepare salmon to tide them through the winter would be heavy with fish meat, the fruits of a ...

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 ...

“It’s hard to comprehend that this is happening in my lifetime. It makes me sad just thinking about it,” said Bill Alstrom of St. Mary’s. (Olivia Ebertz/KYUK) Bill Alstrom lives in St. Mary’s on the ...

In St. Mary’s, Alaska, the people of the Yupiit of Andreafski look to the south wind, the budding tree leaves, and even the formations of migrating birds to discern whether the pulse of salmon ...

Serena Fitka sat in the cabin of a flat-bottomed aluminum boat as it sped down the Yukon River in western Alaska, recalling how the river once ran thick with salmon. Each summer, in the Yup’ik village ...

Last in a three-part series. These stories were made possible in part with a grant from the Pulitzer Center’s Connected Coastlines initiative. Read parts one and two. EMMONAK — A single slick silver ...