Aside from a possible brief opening to harvest summer chum, 2025 will be the sixth consecutive year of total salmon fishing ...

who grew up fishing as part of his family’s business near Dawson. A boat cruises down the Yukon River between the villages of Holy Cross and Russian Mission in western Alaska. Grist / Max Graham ...

Skiffs line the bank near the lower Yukon River community ... closure of chinook salmon fishing for the next seven years. Carroll said that the recently signed Alaska-Canada agreement was overdue.

Commercial fishing boats in the Bering Sea and elsewhere off Alaska that use huge ... up salmon born in the Yukon and otherwise destined to return to the river. Tim Bristol, executive director ...

MacDonald said she worries about what could happen if the U.S. were to one day use hatcheries on the Yukon River to boost the commercial fishing industry, as it has done elsewhere in Alaska.

But unfortunately for the Yukon River, the last commercial fishing took place in 2019 [due to unprecedented low salmon numbers]. To this day, families are still struggling. What have been the ...

For Alaska Native communities along the Yukon River, fishing for salmon has always been a central part of life. But climate change is driving a massive collapse in salmon populations. For Alaska ...

Steve Gotch, the Canadian chair of the Yukon River Panel — a Canada/Alaska ... said chinook aren't just facing pressure from fishing in Alaska, and said he's concerned about how the moratorium ...

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In a bid to help the recovery of the Yukon River chinook salmon run, the federal government and the State of Alaska have agreed to implement a seven-year moratorium on fishing the species.

All along the river, Alaska Natives and First Nations ... orcas and bearded seals — troubled by industrial fishing. Scientists Howard and Westley say the Yukon River could reach a point where ...