UAF associate professor Peter Westley holding spawning male chum salmon from the Anaktuvuk River in September 2023. (Joe Spencer/Alaska Department of Fish & Game) University of Alaska Fairbanks ...

Chum salmon, a species that has faltered in the Interior Alaska river systems, are now reproducing farther north in some North Slope rivers, researchers have confirmed. A University of Alaska ...

Wild Fish Conservancy has filed a lawsuit that could effectively end commercial king salmon trolling in southeast Alaska. The conservation group claimed Alaska’s salmon harvesting threatens endangered ...

Local leaders and state legislators this week joined the growing opposition to a lawsuit that could halt Southeast Alaska’s commercial troll fisheries due to what a conservation group in Washington ...

Researchers have confirmed that salmon are spawning in an Arctic Ocean watershed, suggesting that at least some salmon species could be expanding to new territory as climate change reshapes their ...

Every summer, many rivers across Alaska appear as if they have caught fire. The water turns a deep, almost impossible red as ...

Salmon jump and thrash in the water as the research skiff passes by. (Brian Venua) In the summer, hordes of salmon travel thousands of miles from the ocean to fill the streams and creeks around Lake ...