Northwest summers mean salmon on the grill. While Alaskans fill freezers with their own catch – our freezers are filled with enough salmon to last until next summer – those grilling elsewhere must buy ...

Rather than propping up a foreign mining corporation, Alaska should look after the businesses that already anchor Bristol Bay ...

A spawning male sockeye salmon is seen in July 2010 in the Wood River, part of the Bristol Bay watershed. Bristol Bay is the site of the world’s largest sockeye salmon runs. (Photo by Thomas ...

This story was reported as part of a collaboration between the Anchorage Daily News and The Seattle Times, with support from the Pulitzer Center’s Connected Coastlines reporting initiative. PICK CREEK ...

The Bristol Bay watershed is inhabited by 29 fish species, more than 40 terrestrial mammals, and more than 190 species of birds. The watershed supports production of all five species of Pacific salmon ...

Naming the origin of the protein you ate at your last meal makes a good trivia question, but also a difficult one. Most children will say, “the grocery store.” Adults know better, but often they can’t ...

For Alaska salmon fishing, the summer of 2022 is the best of times and the worst of times. But along the Yukon River, a prized salmon run is heading toward a worst-ever season. The number of Chinook ...

Salmon spread across the deck of a fishing vessel during last summer's record season in Bristol Bay. (Hope McKenney/KUCB) Bristol Bay sockeye populations are booming, but what is the tipping point?

Bristol Bay lived up to its reputation as Alaska’s salmon powerhouse this year. While unusually poor returns of sockeye salmon plagued most other Alaskan waterways, state regulators are calling ...

After the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ decision last week to reject a key permit for Alaska’s proposed Pebble Mine, it’s clear that federal protection is now needed to permanently preserve this ...

Mr. Metrokin is president and C.E.O. of the Bristol Bay Native Corporation. ANCHORAGE — Bristol Bay is a place defined by salmon. For those of us who live and work in this region of wetlands, rivers ...

This year’s catch in Alaska is expected to be among the largest on record; Pride of Bristol Bay is a reliable source for delivery in September. By Florence Fabricant The sockeye salmon harvest in the ...