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Nathaniel Herz/Alaska's Energy Desk“We’re not policy experts,” Kuskokwim River Intertribal Fish Commission Executive Director Mary Peltola said, “We’re not scientists. We’re not career people. This isn’t part of our career ladder. We’re very desperate to pass on the knowledge that we’ve received over 12,000 years on how to live in harmony with salmon and utilize salmon as our foundational diet.” -
Katie Basile/KYUKUnofficial estimates of this summer’s king salmon run in Western Alaska rivers show a lower than average return, which will trigger stricter limits on the…
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Yukon River summer chum dropped to a record low this summer, down to a tenth of their average run size. Fishing for the species was closed all summer, and… -
For decades, Kwik’Pak Fisheries in Emmonak has provided reliable summer employment in one of the state’s most unemployed regions. The company is the only…
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Yukon Chum Are Disappearing. Here's How The Company That Built Its Business On Chum Is Diversifying.Usually, Kwik’pak Fisheries, the only commercial fish processor on the Yukon, sells salmon around the world. After the Yukon’s main salmon species started…
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When Yukon Chum Stocks Suddenly Collapsed, Yukon River Residents Received Donations From Bristol BayFor eight years, Tanya Ives has been traveling up from Washington each summer to work at the Yukon River’s only fish processing plant: Kwik’Pak Fisheries.…
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There’ll be a longer moose hunting season this fall in Zone 2 of state Game Management Unit 18. On August 5, the Federal Subsistence Board approved a…
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Kuskokwim River fishermen want information on how commercial bycatch could be affecting Kuskokwim subsistence salmon runs, and they’re asking Gov.…
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The entire Kuskokwim River will open full-time to subsistence fishing with gillnets beginning at 12:01 a.m. on July 31. At that time, gillnet restrictions…
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In the old days, 1.6 million summer chum salmon would swim up the Yukon River. This year, the run is the lowest on record. So far, there have been only…
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The Dunleavy administration has directed the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to coordinate salmon deliveries to Yukon River communities.Kwik’Pak…
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For the first time this year, lower Yukon River fishermen will be allowed to subsistence fish for salmon. The announcement comes as state biologists…
