Citing a weak coho salmon run, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said Wednesday it was halting sportfishing at Ship Creek in Anchorage through Sept. 30. The emergency order is effective 12:01 a.m ...

Feisty at the end of the rod and light and mellow at the center of the plate, silver or coho salmon have always been a symbol of the end of summer in Alaska. But, in the last several years, as tourism ...

The Alaska salmon industry enters the 2026 season after a year marked by heavy industry consolidation, especially in the processing sector.

Spawning sockeye salmon returning from Bristol Bay swim in 2013 in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve's Tazimina Lake. (Photo by D. Young/National Park Service) The number of Alaska salmon ...

The facility is located close to Silver Bay Seafoods’ own processing plant in False Pass, which opened in 2019. Silver Bay Seafoods, which is owned by 600 fishermen, is a processor of frozen salmon, ...

After walking away from a twenty-year guiding career in Alaska to write full-time, I’m getting the chance to return for one more week on the water. This is the 6th installment of a ten-part series ...

Today was silver salmon day, and everyone around the lodge was excited. Guide Luke Valentino and I were assigned to take a family of five up the Kamishak to see if the silvers, also known as coho, ...

US-based company Silver Bay Seafoods has bought an Alaskan processing facility from local peer Trident Seafoods. The plant, located in False Pass, is dedicated to processing salmon. Financial terms of ...