The Alaska Department of Fish and Game will close Ship Creek to all sportfishing from this Saturday to mid-July to ensure the department meets its king salmon broodstock needs at the William Jack ...

A 45.8-pound king salmon sits on ice during Petersburg’s salmon derby in 2015. (Joe Viechnicki/KFSK) Should Southeast Alaska have a hatchery-only king salmon sports fishery? Researchers recently tried ...

Sport fishing for wild king salmon in Southeast Alaska is now restricted to Alaskans for the rest of the summer, after state managers closed the sector due to harvest projections. However, harvesting ...

It is mid-May and, in the not too distant past, I would be thinking about king salmon fishing, getting my gear ready and getting very excited. I would go to my favorite river, one that I call the ...

Tad Fujioka always had great problem-solving skills. After studying and working as an engineer, he left the field 14 years ago to become a troll fisherman based in Sitka, Alaska. "If you’re good at ...

A ban on king salmon fishing in effect in many Juneau-area waters until Aug. 31 was expected due to a 2020 landslide that severed the freshwater supply to a local hatchery and thus killed off most of ...

The State Department of Fish and Game on Tuesday published a dozen advisory announcements closing fisheries and restricting gear throughout Cook Inlet to protect king salmon returns. The forecast ...