The Kuskokwim River has now had three fishing openings for drift gillnets, but many people in Akiak are not happy. KYUK went fishing with the mayor of Akiak to find out more about why people’s ...

A legal dispute between the U.S. government and the state of Alaska about subsistence fishing on the Kuskokwim River is growing, and a leading Native corporation says it could endanger subsistence ...

Notably, the judge said, the state allowed similar gillnet fishing for all Alaskans on the Kuskokwim last year, and the federal government had not presented evidence that the 2021 state action had ...

With the only fish buyer closing down its Kuskokwim operations, the usual infusion of millions of dollars into this part of job-poor Southwestern Alaska isn’t happening.

In the years before king fishing on the Kuskokwim was shut down, the average annual harvest for subsistence was 84,000 kings, according to the state Department of Fish and Game.

Federal managers are returning control of this summer's subsistence salmon fishing on the Kuskokwim River and its salmon tributaries to the state, but the number of those fish returning to spawn ...

The main stem of the Kuskokwim is already closed to all gillnets, so the additional restrictions mean only federally qualified users will be able to harvest chum and salmon once harvest season opens.

The King salmon runs on the Kuskokwim have been struggling for some time. Peltola said she grew up fishing the river and first noticed the King run was in distress in 2010.

May 19—The Biden administration is suing the state of Alaska over fishing management authority on a Southwest Alaska river. The Kuskokwim River is critical for subsistence fishing, but its king ...

Alaska Army National Guard aviators assigned to the 207th Aviation Battalion, rescued a family of six June 30, near Tuntutuliak on the Kuskokwim River. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center opened the ...

Banner image: Native fishers preparing for a fishing trip on the Kuskokwim river. Image courtesy of Rachel Rustin.

The federal government aimed to put a halt at state-sanctioned fishing on parts of the Kuskokwim River given its recent salmon crashes over the past three years.