The largest and oldest Chinook salmon — fish also known as “kings” and prized for their exceptional size — have mostly disappeared along the West Coast. That’s the main finding of a new University of Washington-led study published Feb. 27 in the journal Fish and Fisheries. The researchers analyzed nearly 40 years of data from hatchery and […]
In a packed university conference room, biologist Randy Brown spoke of chinook, the fatty king of far-north salmon. “It’s more than just a fish, it’s a culture,” Brown said to the Fairbanks crowd, many of them Alaska Natives. Brown is the lead author on a paper in which he documented all the known Yukon River […]
Harvests of pink salmon in Alaska’s commercial fisheries have reached more than 86 million fish, bringing the total preliminary salmon catch total to date to nearly 160 million salmon. The statewide catch also includes upwards of 51 million sockeyes, 19.7 million chum, 2.5 million coho and 242,000 Chinook salmon. In Southeast Alaska, 20,732,000 of the […]
Alaska Wildlife troopers report an extensive operation to retrieve two undersized King Salmon that were illegally dumped overboard near a local processor in Sitka that occurred on July 2nd, the trooper dispatch revealed. According to the posting, the permit holder and operator of the commercial power troller, the Daniel G, 59-year-old Daniel P. Kayser, of […]