Thirty minutes after the official end of the Anchorage's Slam'n Salm'n Derby, Sunday, Tom Baker landed a 44-pound, 8-ounce king salmon. But the Alaska pipefitter has no regrets.
Unlikely to meet early season escapement goals, Alaska fisheries managers are already imposing restrictions and wondering what's next on the state's most popular fishing river.Suzanna Caldwell
The Alaska Energy Authority is funding five new Alaska Department of Fish and Game fish weirs on tributaries of the Susitna River in the coming weeks, in order to understand aquatic resources while working toward a proposed hydroelectric dam.Jerzy Shedlock
Less than two weeks ago, the number of red salmon in Alaska's Copper River made the run sound like a bust. But that's all changed in the past week.Craig Medred
Local mobile app developer creates program that monitors Alaska fish runs and emergency orders from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.Suzanna Caldwell
Alaska anglers fighting the effects of a late break-up and a truly horrific king salmon forecast finally saw a glimmer of hope this week. Kings are finally being caught. Halibut more than 100 pounds have been landed. And area lakes have been stocked with hungry fish.
Sean Doogan
Seventy minutes later after hooking a big Seward, Alaska, flatfish, the 181-pound behemoth was in the boat. But the California angler neglected to buy a derby ticket. Craig Medred
Alaskans dipnetting in Copper River are the victims this time. The first opening of that Alaska food fishery has been cancelled due to a lack of fish -- even as commercial netters at the river mouth prospered.Craig Medred
More than a few people in the windswept, far Western corner of Alaska wanted the trials last week of Kuskokwim River fishermen to be a moratorium on the bycatch of Chinook salmon in the Bering Sea.Craig Medred
