Empty boats line the shore in St. Mary's in 2022 after a summer with next to no subsistence salmon fishing on the Yukon River. (Olivia Ebertz/KYUK) People on the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers are ...

The Alaska Board of Fisheries has announced a reduction in fishing opportunity for chum salmon by 30 per cent in southwest Alaska. Alaskan Natives, facing increasing food insecurity from a lack of ...

Salmon runs on the Yukon River continued to be anemic this year, federal and state agencies reported, and there are far too few fish reaching Canada to meet goals set in a treaty between that nation ...

Serena Fitka sat in the cabin of a flat-bottomed aluminum boat as it sped down the Yukon River in western Alaska, recalling how the river once ran thick with salmon. Each summer, in the Yup’ik village ...

STEVENS VILLAGE, Alaska — In a normal year, the smokehouses and drying racks that Alaska Natives use to prepare salmon to tide them through the winter would be heavy with fish meat, the fruits of a ...

Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part series looking at the impact that low salmon counts are having on Yukon River villages. When subsistence fishing closes on the Yukon, so do ...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are predicting a poor return of chinook and chum salmon to the Yukon area this summer. Like last year, both the federal ...