Generally, wild salmon has a gamey, fishier taste, while farmed has a fattier, milder flavor, says Wong. Supermarkets and restaurants nationwide offer five species of wild Alaska salmon: Alaska ...

A season of low prices, high costs and a poor pink salmon run has come on the heels of last year’s market collapse.

Chinook salmon are the largest, fattiest salmon, and the preferred prey of endangered southern resident orcas that frequent ...

A federal fisheries vessel sailed north this September, some 12,000 nautical miles (22,200 kilometres) to the Aleutian ...

In much of coastal Alaska, salmon sizes have shrunk over the past decades. The change is most dramatic in Chinook, but it has affected other salmon species as well. Average weight of Bristol Bay s ...

Roughly 50,000 metric tons of quota will be left in the water in the Gulf of Alaska after a Chinook salmon bycatch incident ...

HAINES, Alaska — In the middle of the ... categorizing them by species. They also periodically scoop up individual salmon with a net, noting weight, length and sex, and taking a scale sample ...

Weirs, common in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest ... categorizing them by species. They also periodically scoop up individual salmon with a net, noting weight, length and sex, and taking a ...

The incident is sure to draw more scrutiny on the issue of bycatch — the unintended harvest of fish by boats targeting other ...

Fish hanging in a smokehouse, a wolf holding a piece of meat, a beluga whale: Those were some of the images etched on bowhead whale baleen during a workshop at the Elders & Youth Conference. More than ...

Explore the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, a birdwatcher’s paradise with stunning landscapes and diverse ...

You can also seek out many other river and ocean species, such as rainbow trout ... You'll also be able to catch Alaska's prized salmon throughout much of the cruise season.