the boat flipped and Bruss was neck-deep in the 40-degree water. The sudden shock of cold glacial water made breathing difficult, and the ripping current of river that drains Copper Glacier ...

As the famed Copper River salmon season begins ... Over the past two weeks, fishing boat crews from Seattle and elsewhere have started arriving by the hundreds, positioning for the start of ...

In the 1980s virtually all the Copper River catch was being exported to Japan at prices so low that fishermen were pulling their boats out of the water and hanging up their nets. But a group of ...

A spokesman for the Anchorage seafood shop 10th & M Seafoods said they expected first delivery of Copper River sockeyes and ...

This year, with two Copper River commercial openers under their belt ... as rain and spray from breaking waves crashed onto his boat’s windows. He smiled as he rode the crest and grimaced ...

But Floor helps sport anglers justify buying the boat and outboard to catch their own rather than taking out a loan for whole Copper River salmon. All spring chinook, he said, "by form of genetics ...

The Copper River fishing season started on May 15 ... said so far fishing is good, calling from his boat out on the delta, but he said uncertainty grows each year. “A few years ago, there ...

As many as 500 boats participated in the first commercial ... That’s down slightly from last year’s opening-day prices. The arrival of Copper River salmon in Seattle is the first wild salmon ...

Copper River Prince William Sound Marketing Association is a fisherman funded non-profit regional seafood development association, representing 560 independent small boat fishermen. Their task is ...