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 ...

The Pilot Station sonar site consists of two counting stations located across from one another on the banks of the lower Yukon River. From the perspective of a boat floating downstream, the site’s ...

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 ...

EAGLE VILLAGE, Alaska - When Jody Potts-Joseph was growing up, her family mushed sled dogs during the harsh Alaskan winters to hunt and trap, feeding them salmon caught from the Yukon River by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s nearly 2 in the morning and the sun is just beginning to set as Ben Stevens navigates the braided channels of the Yukon River toward his fish camp. Stevens is a traditional fisherman — Dinyee ...

Originally published in the Northern Journal newsletter and republished with permission. The salmon crisis in Western Alaska is prompting new discussions in the U.S. and Canada about an idea that ...

Boats along the Andreafsky River are packed and ready if evacuation orders come through in St. Mary's, Alaska. June 11, 2022. (Katie Basile/For KYUK) It’s a grim outlook for Yukon River Chinook and ...

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After last year’s disastrous king and chum salmon runs on the Yukon River, observers witnessing crashing fish stocks and the devastating impact of subsistence fishing closures along the length of the ...