This year in Bristol Bay, fishing crews have noticed that sockeye salmon were on the small side — an observation confirmed this month by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Fish and Game officials ...

NAKNEK — Record-breaking numbers of sockeye salmon have returned to southwest Alaska’s Bristol Bay and the tally is expected to climb higher in the days ahead. As of Thursday, fishing crews had caught ...

A Bristol Bay sockeye salmon "mob" gathers in August 2004 in the Wood River, which flows into the Nushagak River just north of Dillingham, the region's largest community. The Alaska Department of Fish ...

A spawning male sockeye salmon is seen in July 2010 in the Wood River, part of the Bristol Bay watershed. Bristol Bay is the site of the world’s largest sockeye salmon runs. (Photo by Thomas ...

NPS Photo / T. Quinn. 2006. The world’s largest sockeye salmon run was larger than average this year, but the percentage of those fish that were harvested commercially was lower than normal, and ...

Alaska’s Bristol Bay sockeye salmon harvest is forecast to tumble next year to some 36.6 million fish, according to Alaska state Department of Fish and Game biologists. The downturn comes on the heels ...

Bristol Bay, Alaska, is the largest source of wild sockeye on the planet with record-breaking harvests for the last few years. Bristol Bay Salmon Week gives seafood enthusiasts and foodies alike the ...

In 2002, when Steve Kurian graduated from college in Pennsylvania, he moved west to Idaho to take a job in forest management. There, Steve rented an apartment from an old, crusty commercial Alaska ...

The world’s biggest sockeye salmon run will be larger than average next year, state biologists have forecasted. The Bristol Bay sockeye run is expected to total 51.21 million fish in 2025, according ...