The management strategy for waters within the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge (YDNWR) is nearly identical to that seen ...

Empty boats line the shore in St. Mary's in 2022 after a summer with next to no subsistence salmon fishing on the Yukon River. (Olivia Ebertz/KYUK) People on the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers are ...

Thousands of rainbow smelts arrived in Bethel on the evening of May 21 on their annual migration up the Kuskokwim River to ...

Their message was unified: Alaska’s fishing communities are at a tipping point. Regulatory pressures, climate change, and economic consolidation are making it harder to fish, and harder still to stay ...

As a member of the Kuskokwim River Management Working Group, a regional advisory board for Alaska’s Department of Fish and Game, she urged the state to give priority to subsistence fishing on ...

There's a more serious problem with this fishing trip: There are no fish. The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta is suffering another year of dismal salmon returns. "Growing up, and until probably 2010 ...

Federal officials argue that state regulators tried to usurp control of fishing along the Kuskokwim River in western Alaska, where salmon make up about half of all food produced in the region.

The State of Alaska filed a motion for summary judgment Friday to end a federal lawsuit connected to control of salmon fishing on the Kuskokwim River that has turned into a “jurisdiction ...

Kuskokwim River, in southwest Alaska. The Donlin mine's massive industrial operation will destroy thousands of acres of wetlands and streams and cause permanently elevated levels of dangerous metals ...

Once they destroy our land, there won’t be any more.” The lifeblood of the region is the Kuskokwim River, extending 724 miles from deep in the Alaskan interior to the rugged Bering Sea.