Sockeye are smaller in size and fewer in number this year than in recent years.
Sleeper sharks are already known to range as far north as the Chukchi Sea, but reports of possible shark attacks on seal and sea lions have increased — and now come from further into the Arctic.
Weak returns forced the latest restriction. Good news: Sockeye fishing at the Russian River is forecast to be good.
Thousands of herring washed up around Piltun Bay in northeastern Sakhalin..
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game issued an emergency order Wednesday closing the personal-use and sport fishing for Copper River sockeye around Chitina until further notice. It goes into effect on Monday, June 18th.
Capelin have made an appearance on a beach in western P.E.I. — a rare occurrence and also a sign that capelin populations are strong.
Biologists blame the Blob of warm water in the Gulf of Alaska for poor sockeye returns that also led to the second lowest commercial harvest in 50 years.
An obstruction has disconnected Morris Cove from ocean waters, preventing salmon from moving upstream.
A poor return of king salmon on the Anchor River will shut down all sport fishing on the Anchor and Ninilchik rivers and Deep Creek drainages beginning Saturday morning, the Alaska Department of Fish & Game announced Thursday.
Federal officials have shut down salmon and recreational fishing for the summer in key feeding grounds for killer whales. The closures, which took effect Friday, apply to parts of the southern . . .
Blackline Prickleback (Acantholumpenus mackayi) caught along the Bering Sea Coast
Smelt caught in Bethel with fungal infection previously found in the Norton Sound region.
The remains of a possible seal carcass tangled in netting may have come into contact postmortem, "ghost fishing" as a potential cause.
The trout we were gorging on them and the mergansers looked like they had eaten their fill.
As the ice breaks up on waterways across the North, the spring river breakup has come to a close in Hay River but not before it created a feast of fish for local birds.
It is unusual for skates to wash up on the beach.
Research finds farmed salmon virus may cause jaundice/anemia.
All Topics
All Countries
Any Date
Apply