In 2019, a young fisherman was walking through a boatyard in Naknek, Bristol Bay, when he bumped into a brown bear feeding from a dumpster. It was night, when, bears are most active and bold — ...
Bound by a common threat, unlikely allies of tribes, commercial fishermen and the conservation community came together to ...
The commercial salmon harvest in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, site of the world’s largest sockeye salmon runs, held a mixture of good news and bad news this year. The run of sockeye salmon, also known as red ...
A Bristol Bay sockeye salmon "mob" gathers in August 2004 in the Wood River, which flows into the Nushagak River just north of Dillingham, the region's largest community. The Alaska Department of Fish ...
A third of the state’s subsistence salmon harvest was caught in Bristol Bay in 2017. That’s according to a new report from the McKinley Research Group. The subsistence economy is critical to Bristol ...
Bristol Bay lived up to its reputation as Alaska’s salmon powerhouse this year. While unusually poor returns of sockeye salmon plagued most other Alaskan waterways, state regulators are calling ...
SEATTLE — Amid a fierce June storm that whipped up 8-foot waves, Robin Samuelsen told his four young crew members to let out the gillnets behind his 32-foot boat in the Nushagak district of Bristol ...
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it would restore protections for Alaska’s Bristol Bay, blocking the construction of a massive and controversial gold mine near the ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alaska Communications has agreed to supply low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite service through OneWeb to Bristol Bay Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (BBTC). BBTC will use ...