As of July 21, fishermen in Bristol Bay’s five districts had harvested just more than 42 million salmon.
Village wildlife observers worry that the unusual warmth of oceans off Alaska is causing problems throughout the ecosystem.
The Grand Coulee and Chief Joseph dams don’t include fish ladders, and so in August the Colville Tribes released 100 salmon 35 miles upstream of the two dams in an attempt to see if they would survive and spawn.
Two popular rivers are being closed to fishing because almost no cohos are making it upstream.
The fish, likely former aquarium pets, have attracted the attention of invasive-species managers.
Wildlife officials used rotenone, a fish-killing chemical, to eradicate goldfish illegally introduced to the pond at Cuddy Family Midtown Park.
The sea lions have posed a long-running conundrum for wildlife officials, pitting mammals protected under federal law against protected — and valuable — fish runs.
As the tide ebbed down the beach outside his house Friday, Harry Rietze discovered a mysterious sea creature that one scientific paper described as a puzzling fish with soft bones.
Weak returns forced the latest restriction. Good news: Sockeye fishing at the Russian River is forecast to be good.
Some are concerned about the farmed Atlantic salmon coming to Alaska and bringing unwelcome competition for native species.
The Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife said the fish are yellow perch, which are common in the lake.
Sweeping salmon closures and protection measures were put in place for the 2021 season to protect stocks of concern. Between 200 and 250 illegal fishing nets have been seized on the Fraser River so far this year.
If Alaska expands how many pink salmon its hatcheries — such as the one in Tutka Bay — produce, will there be unintended consequences that harm Kachemak Bay?
Ferocious fish, not native to Canada, was netted and released in Alberni Inlet
Chum returns are the lowest on record, leaving communities with empty freezers and uncertainty about getting through the winter.
Swimmers have reported feeling nausea, itchy skin and irritated eyes after vising the popular lake.
It's open season on Atlantic salmon as the public is urged to help mop up a salmon spill from an imploded net pen holding 305,000 fish at a Cooke Aquaculture fish farm near Cypress Island.
Fishing businesses in Mat-Su warned that the rules could hurt the state's tourism economy.
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