Salmon returning home to Alaska hatcheries again accounted for nearly one-third of the 2021 statewide catch for commercial fishermen at 64 million fish. It was the eighth largest hatchery homecoming ...

A legal fight is ramping up over who should manage Alaska's dwindling salmon populations—and who gets access to them. By Max Graham/Grist Published Dec 25, 2023 11:00 AM EST This story was originally ...

Between its pristine waters and native fish, Denali National Park is a paradise for anglers who come to cast for such rare fish as Arctic grayling.

(CN) — A federal judge sided with the U.S. government on Friday night to bar the state of Alaska from allowing subsistence gillnet fishing by all Alaskans on the Kuskokwim River. The order from U.S.

For the second time ever, Alaska went a year with zero fatalities in its commercial fishing industry. The U.S. Coast Guard reported that there were no operational fatalities from Oct. 1, 2021 to Sept.

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. When salmon all but vanished from western Alaska in 2021, thousands of people ...