For more than five years, Southeast’s iconic king salmon have been returning in fewer and fewer numbers. Managers with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game are recommending Chilkat, Unuk and King Salmon River Chinooks become official “stocks of concern.” Listen now

The bad news was announced by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, which sets the catches for more than 25 species in waters from 3 to 200 miles from shore in the Gulf and the Bering Sea. The cod decline is blamed on younger fish not surviving warm ocean temperatures that began in 2014.

Three researchers from the NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center completed a trawl survey of the Northern Bering Sea in 2017 and found a dramatic increase in pollock. 

In dives to the seafloor, scientists have noticed big differences in only a few years.

Some local officials suspect water pollution killed the fish, but state officials offered an alternative explanation.

Smart started finding dead fish in his trap near Dull Lake about two or three weeks ago. Now there are hundreds and hundreds of them.Some local officials suspect water pollution killed the fish, but state officials offered an alternative explanation. According to the Fish and Game representative a local fisherman forgot to check a blackfish trap and may have dumped the dead fish in Dull Lake.

Akhiok residents report that fish have returned to Akhiok Bay since the outfall was repaired/extended further into the ocean

New rules to combat sea lice have angered Norway’s important aquaculture industry. But environmental groups want to go much further.

Adam Turnbull found the fish growing around a ring of plastic.

Drought, causing low waters in Goodnews River, no blackberries, and early cool weather.

A resident of the community was near the gravel pit when he came across a number of dead fish.

Silver salmon, caught 10 miles up the Twin Hills River, had small white patches in flesh.

I notice fluorescent glowing in the dark: happens to be the tomcods I caught the other day.

A thin, shimmering fish covered in purple scales and fringed with a red dorsal fin. It turned out to be a massive King-of-the-Salmon fish, measuring about two metres in length.

The rare type of ribbonfish was found by a man walking his dog on Rattenbury Beach.

Researchers from the University of Washington used 80 years of data to figure out how much warming fish could withstand. They discovered fish in the tropics are already living in water at the upper end of their threshold.