Fifteen-year-old Riley Neal landed a 51-pound king salmon in Alaska, but missed out on prize money due to his age.

Nonresident anglers fishing in state and federal waters can't retain any chinook salmon that they catch in Southeast Alaska between July 7 and when the season ends Sept. 30, the ...

This is a developing story. Many Juneau-area waters will be closed to king salmon fishing starting Monday and remain closed until Aug. 31 due to a low projected spawning population, according to ...

Hoonah teen Riley Neal reeled in a 51 lb. king salmon, but was not old enough to participate in the local fish derby.

A Washington-based conservation group filed a petition with federal regulators Wednesday, requesting that they list Alaska king salmon as an endangered species. The Wild Fish Conservancy argued in ...

The Alaska Department of Fish & Game, which manages all king salmon stocks in the state, has also been one of the petition’s loudest critics. Doug Vincent-Lang is the department’s commissioner.

A petition to list many Alaska king salmon stocks as endangered has cleared its first hurdle. As first reported by the Northern Journal, it’s mainly a bureaucratic step for the petition, from ...

SEATTLE — A ruling from a U.S. judge in Seattle could effectively shut down commercial king salmon trolling in Southeast Alaska — a valuable industry that supports some 1,500 fishermen ...

“Everyone is fighting each other for the last king salmon,” said Mark Stopha, a retired fish biologist with the state Department of Fish and Game and a longtime fish seller in Juneau, Alaska.

A king salmon is laid out for inspection by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game at the Mike Pusich Douglas Harbor during the Golden North Salmon Derby on Aug. 25, 2019.