The Tyee

Recreational Fishery Groups Upset about Plan to Change Salmon Allocations

As the federal government is revisiting its salmon allocation policy, fishing groups are divided on what, if anything, needs to change.
Alaska Public Media

Amid salmon crash, Alaska’s Yukon River residents say a new pact with Canada leaves them behind

This reporting was supported by a Carnegie Foundation Fellowship. Writers Olivia Ebertz and Bathsheba Demuth boated more than 1,000 miles up and down the Yukon River last summer, hearing the stories ...
Alaska Public Media

An influx of chum salmon in the Canadian Arctic could be the same fish missing from Western Alaska

Frankie Dillon displays a chum salmon caught in the Big Fish River, near Aklavik, Northwest Territories, in 2023. (Photo by Colin Gallagher, DFO) Johnnie Storr grew up fishing with his dad in the ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Nearly 30,000 chinook salmon wasted as bycatch in B.C. fishery, Canadian report finds

Nearly 30,000 chinook salmon were wasted as bycatch in the Canadian trawl fishery targeting hake and walleye pollock, a new report from Canadian fisheries officials found. Bycatch, or unintended catch ...