Best bets Delta sturgeon hitting and New Melones bass and trout action solid, Kyle Wise reported. McClure bass eating, Randy ...

“It was just, like, a wall,” he said. Bristol Bay fishing boats sit at a dock, likely in the 1960s. Scores of new fishermen had entered the industry in the 1950s and 1960s amid Alaska’s ...

Each spring, about half the village’s 30 families would push their fishing boats into the water, run the 120 miles down the Nushagak River into Bristol Bay and spend the summer catching salmon ...

Last year’s lower-than-average Bristol Bay salmon harvest likely went a long way toward long-term polarization of the drift ...

“If you’ve got young people who live in the fishing communities where the fisheries occur and they don’t see that as an opportunity, that’s bad public policy,” said Rachel Donkersloot, a researcher ...

“It was just, like, a wall,” he said. Bristol Bay fishing boats sit at a dock, likely in the 1960s. (Amos Burg, Alaska Department of Fish and Game Historical Photograph Collection, 1950 ...

“If you’ve got young people who live in the fishing communities where the fisheries occur and they don’t see that as an opportunity, that’s bad public policy,” said Rachel Donkersloot, a researcher ...

Now 76, pictured aboard his boat, the MZ L, he’s the last skipper running a commercial fishing vessel from his home village of Ouzinkie, on an island just north of Kodiak. (Photo by Nathaniel ...

She spent two summers covering the Bristol Bay fishing season. Originally from Oakland, California, she got her start as a reporter, then morning show producer, at KPFA Radio in Berkeley.