King Salmon News

Gary Hedges holds up a 24-pound salmon caught while fishing from his row boat in Tee Harbor during the 2009 Spring King Salmon derby.

President Obama signs a memorandum pledging meaningful consultation with tribes, and giving every cabinet agency 90 days to come up with a plan to implement and improve consultation.

Anglers try their luck while silver salmon fishing at Ship Creek near downtown Anchorage on Sunday, August 2, 2009.

A 50-year-old Ugashik man was found dead a mile from the village and Alaska State Troopers said the cause appears to be exposure.

The U.S. Air Force is cutting back the contract staff at its King Salmon facility, officials announced on Tuesday.

This photo was taken during a july vacation to Alaska. Blake Ritter, son of Angie and Brian Ritter of Cape Girardeau, is standing with his 50 pound king salmon he caught and his dad's 30 pound king salmon .

Just a few years ago, king salmon played an outsize role in villages along the Yukon River.

CH2M Hill said April 30 that it received one of six awards presented by Labor Commissioner Click Bishop at the Department of Labor and Workforce Development's second annual Apprenticeship Conference and Awards Celebration.

By Laine Welch More than 200 Alaska fishermen have participated in a life-saving project aimed at reducing fatalities from falls overboard.

For a heaping plate of comfort food after a long day of fishing or business travel, Eddie's Fireplace Inn is a good bet in King Salmon, a transportation hub for the Bristol Bay fishery and the gateway to Katmai National Park.

KING SALMON, Alaska -- Timothy Ragina, assigned to Fort Richardson's 23rd Engineer Company, fishes on the Naknek River Aug.

Yukon River smokehouses should be filled this summer with oil-rich strips of king salmon -- long used by Alaska Natives as a high-energy food to get through the long Alaska winters.

Yukon River smokehouses should be filled this summer with oil-rich strips of king salmon -- long used by Alaska Natives as a high-energy food to get through the long Alaska winters.

Yukon River smokehouses should be filled this summer with oil-rich strips of king salmon -- long used by Alaska Natives as a high-energy food to get through the long Alaska winters.

Yukon River smokehouses should be filled this summer with oil-rich strips of king salmon _ long used by Alaska Natives as a high-energy food to get through the long Alaska winters.

AP: In Alaska, home of world's best managed salmon fisheries, the mighty Yukon's kings are AWOL.

Yukon River smokehouses should be filled this summer with oil-rich strips of king salmon _ long used by Alaska Natives as a high-energy food to get through the long Alaska winters.

Floatplanes are a common form of transportation in Alaska, but they aren't immune to bad weather.

For 20 years running, Dutch Harbor has retained the title as the nation's top fishing port.

The blurb: Over the course of 16 books and countless magazine pieces, John Gierach has written some of the most intelligent and lyrical prose ever to capture the sport and state of mind that is fly fishing.