In the fall of 2018, officials with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and their partners celebrated what they thought was a milestone: an end to the infestation of invasive northern pike in the ...

A legal fight is ramping up over who should manage Alaska's dwindling salmon populations—and who gets access to them. By Max Graham/Grist Published Dec 25, 2023 11:00 AM EST This story was originally ...

KVICHAK RIVER, Alaska — A screaming east wind was punching up big surf waves half a mile out on Lake Iliamna and scraping the top surface off the sandy shoreline where the lake opened up and sent its ...

“A total of 45.32 million sockeye salmon (with a range of 31.12 million to 59.52 million) are expected to return to Bristol ...

America is home to some of the most productive salmon waters in the world, with rivers, bays, and coastal regions that draw ...

After walking away from a twenty-year guiding career in Alaska to write full-time, I’m getting the chance to return for one more week on the water. This is the 6th installment of a ten-part series ...

Frankie Dillon displays a chum salmon caught in the Big Fish River, near Aklavik, Northwest Territories, in 2023. (Photo by Colin Gallagher, DFO) Johnnie Storr grew up fishing with his dad in the ...

Salmon and steelhead are two of the most prized gamefish in the U.S., and they’re often lumped together within angling circles and discussions. This happens because these fish are forever locked in a ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. When salmon all but vanished from western Alaska in 2021, thousands of people ...