The state is shutting down most summer king salmon sportfishing around Cook Inlet amid continued declines in the strong, hard-running fish that not that long ago filled freezers and fueled tourism in ...

Amber Every (center) directs tractors pulling in a seine net holding sockeye salmon on a beach site on Thursday, July 18, 2024 near Kenai, Alaska. (Ashlyn O'Hara/KDLL) For the second year in a row, ...

A northern pike is seen swimming in this undated photo. Northern pike are native to much of Alaska, but not to the Southcentral region south of the Alaska Range. Illegal introductions that started in ...

After giving 'emergency authorization,' an Alaska state regulatory panel has decided against the permanent approval of dipnets, which are popular with sport fishers but rarely allowed for commercial ...

Facing a second year of restricted fishing, some setnetters on the east side of Cook Inlet, in the US state of Alaska, are experimenting with purse seine gear as a workaround to salvage their season ...

State biologists are projecting a mixed bag of returns this spring and summer for Southcentral’s popular sockeye salmon fisheries. Alaska Department of Fish and Game officials on Feb. 7 issued a ...

Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration will be fighting in court to keep much of Cook Inlet closed to commercial salmon fishing after a federal judge approved the state’s request to intervene in a ...

The Alaska Board of Fisheries is calling for proposals to change fishing regulations affecting Cook Inlet and Kodiak finfish fisheries, with submissions due in April.