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

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

In Nunapitchuk, for example, water damage during the 2020 floods rendered several homes uninhabitable, forcing some displaced residents to move in with friends and family, increasing already-high ...

Kevin Nealis holds a king caught near the Carter Harrison Crib on Monday on Confusion Charters “I never caught a king before, I haven’t been fishing 25 years,” Nealis said. “Big thing for ...

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 ...

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.

The study focused on king populations in the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers ... relied on the salmon in these rivers for subsistence fishing. Contact Carter DeJong at 907-459-7545 or cdejong@ ...

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.

Traditional salmon fishing techniques make it hard to separate different species of salmon, so Whitworth and the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission have been encouraging local fishers to ...

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.