Alaska fishermen are grizzly bears–hibernating throughout the winter, only to arrive on the Bristol Bay watershed during the short summer sockeye season, relying on those salmon to build resilience ...

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SOLDOTNA — A trio of anglers leaned on the edge of Jordan Carter’s boat in shallow water on the Kenai River last month, victoriously enjoying a cold beverage. Their ride with Carter, a local fishing ...

This has been a season when I hooked my first sockeye salmon in less time than it took to put a second rod out and one when I watched both rods for six hours without the planets aligning in my favor.

This year in Bristol Bay, fishing crews have noticed that sockeye salmon were on the small side — an observation confirmed this month by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Fish and Game officials ...

Salmon spread across the deck of a fishing vessel during last summer's record season in Bristol Bay. (Hope McKenney/KUCB) The world’s largest sockeye salmon run was larger than average this year, but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When a million kokanee were flushed out of Green Peter Reservoir in 2023, immediately killing tens of thousands of the fish, it ...

Remember the story about Lonesome Larry, the one and only sockeye salmon that returned to Redfish Lake in Idaho back in 1992? It was a bleak picture of what the sockeye salmon run in the Northwest had ...

Smashing records, sockeye salmon are booming up the Columbia River, in a run expected to top 700,000 fish before it’s over. But a punishing heat wave has made river temperatures so hot many may never ...