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 an ...

Sport fishermen in Juneau may be disappointed Monday, because king salmon will largely be off limits this summer. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has announced an emergency closure for most ...

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 its ...

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 ...

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 ...

An emergency order requiring all king salmon caught by sportfishers in Southeast Alaska salt waters to be released unharmed between Monday and Oct. 1 was issued by the state Department of Fish and ...

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 ...

KENAI, Alaska—Sockeye salmon are plentiful in the waters off this peninsula south of Anchorage, but Brent Johnson isn’t allowed to catch them. In an effort to save the king salmon, whose numbers have ...

It took Riley Neal three and a half hours, a borrowed net, and a whole lot of grit to land the 51-pound king salmon he hooked near Angoon, Alaska on Thursday. But at only 15 years old, he’s too young ...