Sport fishing for wild king salmon in Southeast Alaska is now more restricted for some people. Nonresident anglers can no ...

The Stikine River, near Wrangell, in Southeast Alaska. Plummeting king salmon populations across Southeast, in rivers that include the Stikine, are expected to lead to continued fishing ...

The spring season began in May and was to run through the end of June. ... Typically, kings from those two rivers make up 80 percent of the wild king salmon in Southeast Alaska.

King salmon typically make up 40% of Southeast trollers’ annual income. The prized fish, also known as chinooks, can fetch around three times as much as coho salmon and six times as much as chum ...

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 ...

A 45.8-pound king salmon sits on ice during Petersburg’s salmon derby in 2015. (Joe Viechnicki/KFSK) Should Southeast Alaska have a hatchery-only king salmon sports fishery? Researchers recently ...

ANCHORAGE — Southeast Alaska king-salmon fishermen could see a nearly 10 percent boost in their catch this year. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game said yesterday that for the first time ...

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 — after a ...

SEATTLE (AP) -- A federal court ruling this week has thrown into doubt the future of a valuable commercial king salmon fishery in Southeast Alaska, after ...

SEATTLE — A federal court ruling this week has thrown into doubt the future of a valuable commercial king salmon fishery in Southeast Alaska, after a conservation group challenged the government ...