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Of the five species of salmon that swim Alaska waters, the pink is by far the most plentiful. Some scientists think the fish is an overabundant predator that outcompetes other salmon and some ...
In this video, we caught Coho, Pink, and King salmon in Ketchikan, Alaska—the perfect combination for an on-scene taste comparison. The salmon is cooked in a natural way with minimal spices to ...
Pink salmon (NOAA Fisheries) A new analysis of nearly 25,000 fish scales offers more evidence that the millions of pink salmon churned out by Alaska fish hatcheries could be harming wild sockeye ...
One of those climate change winners could be pink salmon in the Arctic, according to a new paper published by U.S. and Canadian scientists in a journal called Deep Sea Research Part II.
Expectations were low this year for the pink salmon runs that power Prince William Sound’s commercial fishing industry. But no one expected them to be as bad as they’ve been. With just a few ...
Salmon Heritage: Our sister/daughter is a pink salmon. Her Lingít name is Cháas’ Koowú Tláa, Mother-of-Humpy-Tail. Traditional names connect us to clans, story, streams, rivers and place.
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game forecasts a harvest of 29 million pink salmon that’s slightly above the 10-year ...
That would be slightly above the most recent 10-year average of 26 million fish and substantially higher than last year’s ...
Alaska has been in the throes of an unprecedented heat wave this summer, and the heat stress is killing salmon in large numbers. Scientists have observed die-offs of several varieties of Alaskan ...
WRANGELL, Alaska — The nation’s largest national forest, the Tongass, blankets 17 million acres of southeast Alaska, in which everything is connected to everything else, with salmon the ...
In addition to small amounts of pink and sockeye salmon, fishers in the Yukon River and its tributaries are also catching sheefish, grayling, burbot, pike and whitefish. “We have to rely on what ...
‘Huge disaster’: Historically weak pink salmon runs strain Alaska’s seine fishermen. Skippers in Prince William Sound and Kodiak say this year’s harvest is one of the worst they’ve seen.