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 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.

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 ...

That would be slightly above the most recent 10-year average of 26 million fish and substantially higher than last year’s ...

And Vincent-Lang has expressed concerns that, if the Endangered Species Act listing of Gulf of Alaska king salmon is approved, it could lead to sharp restrictions on harvests of the fish, as well ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...