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 ...

A federal fisheries agency on Thursday launched a 12-month review to determine if Alaska king salmon should be listed as an endangered or threatened species. The National Marine Fisheries Service ...

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 story of Alaska’s salmon is more than just a tale of fish. It’s a high-stakes drama—one that pits species against species, neighbor against neighbor, and science against politics.

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.

The number of Alaska salmon harvested by commercial fishers was the third smallest since all-species records began in 1985, and the value to harvesters, when adjusted for inflation, was the lowest ...

Not so according to Alaska lawmakers and residents who want the feds to limit industrial ... as tends of millions of pounds of various species of halibut, salmon and other fish are in rapid ...

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Atlantic salmon is the familiar pale-orange farmed fish, while the wild Alaska salmon, Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), is much smaller.

Kings are also a bellwether for all of Alaska’s salmon fishing — which accounted for 97 percent of the wild salmon caught in the United States in 2022, according to the North Pacific ...

A multi-million dollar effort over five years would be invested in researching Alaska's salmon runs -- especially species at historic lows -- under a proposal by the US state's governor Mike ...

A Washington state-based environmental group says it’s filing a petition asking the Biden administration to list southern Alaska king salmon as an endangered species — following through on ...