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Tenders tie up at the processor’s docks, where a tube sucks salmon out of the hold and pumps them into a room-sized vat of ...
Unlike other areas of the state where salmon runs have lagged, millions and millions of sockeye are pouring into Bristol Bay. Normally that's a glorious thing for commercial fishermen. But many ...
In the midst of the fishing season, Bristol Bay businesses, fishermen, and Tribes celebrate the Trump Administration’s decision to defend America’s largest wild sockeye salmon fishery from legal ...
Well, the July 9 trade deadline set by US president Donald Trump has arrived … but pump the brakes! It's not exactly tariff time. Reporter Jacob Resneck checks in from Alaska, where he's been ...
Without stronger laws, Bristol Bay remains under threat from mining claims that endanger salmon and local communities.
Thus did the salmon come back last week to Alaska’s Bristol Bay, one of the richest salmon-fishing grounds in the world, in the biggest run in the 49th state in twelve years. Heartening Prediction.
According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, fishermen in the Shumagin Islands and South Unimak areas harvested about ...
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) has shut down commercial salmon fishing in the Egegik district of Alaska's Bristol Bay due to "numerous reports of illegal fishing activity in closed ...
Rogotzke has been making the trip to Bristol Bay to catch wild Alaskan salmon since 1982. “That’s a couple of years ago already,” he said during a recent conversation with sons Tom and Jay.
News Fishing salmon; ... Permits to participate in the typically lucrative Bristol Bay salmon fishery were going for $260,000 two years ago; now they’re selling for $140,000.
In Bristol Bay’s Egegik district, it’s not uncommon to see some boats fishing in areas of the fishery deemed illegal by the state. But this year seemed particularly bad, according to the ...