Like many communities around the Gulf of Alaska, villages near the Chignik River are struggling with weak sockeye runs. This summer's Chignik return is its lowest recorded in 50 years. The Alaska ...

Here’s another one of my cousin's houses. He's not living there anymore.” The Chignik River’s salmon runs have sustained generations in the century-old small fishing communities along the ...

The federal in-season manager has issued an emergency closure to fishing for Chinook salmon in federal public waters of the Chignik River drainage, effective at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. The action is ...

CHIGNIK BAY -- In the village of Chignik Bay, it’s all about salmon. It’s a tiny Alaska Peninsula outpost with a population of about 200 during the summer and about 70 during the winter, and ...