Sport fishing for wild king salmon in Southeast Alaska is now restricted to Alaskans for the rest of the summer, after state ...

A Washington-based conservation group filed a petition with federal regulators Wednesday, requesting that they list Alaska king salmon as an endangered species. The Wild Fish Conservancy argued in ...

King salmon usually spend several years in the ocean before returning to rivers to spawn. Ray Beamesderfer, a consultant with Cramer Fish Sciences in Gresham, Ore., also suspects changes in the ...

Alaska's King Salmon Now a Commoner. ... Last year's Alaska salmon harvest was worth about $220 million to fishermen, less than half the harvest's average value in the early 1990s.

FILE - Two commercial troll fishing boats pass each other on June 2, 2020, at Mountain Point in Ketchikan, Alaska. A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, halted a lower court ruling ...

The Alaska Department of Fish & Game, which manages all king salmon stocks in the state, has also been one of the petition’s loudest critics. Doug Vincent-Lang is the department’s commissioner.