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A new peer-reviewed study in the journal Fisheries shows that a salmon-focused ecosystem protection strategy for the North ...
Research Spotlight” is a biweekly column that highlights UW centers, institutions, and labs that are assets to their respective fields. This week, columnist Sarah Pabin details the Alaska ...
All that the American West once was, Alaska still is ... the largest of the salmon and the first to return to Bristol Bay, in early June. The men anchor one end of a setnet onshore, pull the ...
It was an inopportune time for the 400-foot vessel with the capacity to hold up to 2.3 million pounds of fresh salmon and ...
Salmon canning was big business in San Francisco for a long time. In the early 20th century, sailing ships would head for ...
Bristol Bay, located in southwest Alaska, is home to the world’s most abundant wild sockeye salmon fishery, contributing more than half of the global sockeye supply. This year, the fishery saw a ...
A Bristol Bay sockeye salmon "mob" gathers in August 2004 in the Wood River, which flows into the Nushagak River just north ...
Alaskans and many others who have been fighting for more than 20 years to prevent the mine from being built in southwest Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed, home to the largest sockeye salmon fishery in ...
Alaska, a land of breathtaking landscapes and diverse regions, offers unique experiences throughout the year. From the ...