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 Chignik River has an early and a late sockeye run. The early run’s escapement is now over 420,000 and the late run’s escapement is now over 220,000 as of July 29. It’s the first time the ...

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 ...