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 ...

(CN) — A federal judge rebuffed a bid by the U.S. government to block Alaskans who aren’t “qualified subsistence users” from gillnet fishing on certain days along a 180-mile-long section of the ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

That priority, as applied to fishing on navigable rivers like the Kuskokwim, was affirmed by a series of landmark court rulings in the 1990s and 2000s, in what are now known as the Katie John cases.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.