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 ...

Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Nation examined how a lack of federal funding and climate change severely impact ...

Aside from a possible brief opening to harvest summer chum, 2025 will be the sixth consecutive year of total salmon fishing ...

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

Many homes in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta are built on an elevated ... and rivers—where they frequently camped for ease of hunting and fishing. Decades later, these fragile waterside ecosystems ...

By Rebecca Dzombak and Lisa Friedman President Trump on Thursday said he was allowing commercial fishing in one of the world’s largest ocean reserves, introducing industrial operations for the ...

It was a key experience that inspired her to found Mother Kuskokwim. Swope now works full ... grew up subsistence fishing every summer on her family’s traditional lands near Ketchikan, Alaska.

In early July, Representative Mary Peltola left the nation’s capital to go fishing. In western Alaska, the red salmon run had begun. Where the muddy waters of the Kuskokwim river mouthed the sea ...

"This will be the fifth year of not fishing," she says ... Della Stroh) Both the Kuskokwim River and parts of the Yukon River are under federal management for salmon. Around 110 out of Alaska's ...

Both the Kuskokwim River and parts of the Yukon River ... In April 2024, Alaska and Canada agreed on a further moratorium to suspend fishing chinook salmon on the Yukon River until 2030.

The financial impact on the trawlers would also affect the Yukon and Kuskokwim Native communities ... of bycatch and sustainability on Alaskan fishing communities remains undeniable.

Several Alaskan rivers have been closed to subsistence fishing, and closures on the Arctic, Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers in Western Alaska have noticeably worsened conflicts concerning fishing rights.