Summer in Soldotna, Alaska, is full of long days; July 1 is a 19-hour day and the 31st of August runs nearly 14 and a half hours. For fishing guide Andrew Chadwick, long days are just part of the job.

Fishing guide Jordan Carter, right, fillets sockeye salmon for clients Justin Schleicher, Brett Eismann and Bryan Fanning. All three customers caught their limit of sockeye salmon on July 23, 2025, in ...

“A total of 45.32 million sockeye salmon (with a range of 31.12 million to 59.52 million) are expected to return to Bristol ...

NPS Photo / T. Quinn. 2006. The world’s largest sockeye salmon run was larger than average this year, but the percentage of those fish that were harvested commercially was lower than normal, and ...

SEATTLE — More than 35 Seattle-area restaurants are uniting for Bristol Bay Salmon Week. From November 17 to 22, they will ...

The Alaska Department of Fish & Game is predicting that more than 75 million sockeye will return to Bristol Bay this summer, topping the largest salmon run on record. The harvest of Bristol Bay ...

This year, more than 78 million sockeye salmon returned to the estuaries of Western Alaska, a record high and a stark contrast with most salmon populations elsewhere as urban infrastructure and rising ...

Last summer, across southwest Alaska’s Bristol Bay region — home to the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world — tens of thousands of fish washed up dead along riverbanks. Rivers running at ...

NAKNEK — Record-breaking numbers of sockeye salmon have returned to southwest Alaska’s Bristol Bay and the tally is expected to climb higher in the days ahead. As of Thursday, fishing crews had caught ...

A record number of sockeye salmon passed through the sonar on the Kasilof River Thursday. About 125,628 sockeye were recorded at the sonar there — a new daily record for the run, according to Brian ...

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 ...

New documentary "The Wild" efforts to stop the Pebble Mine project in Bristol Bay, Alaska. The environment versus industry has been a long-fought battle. In a decades-old fight, it’s salmon versus ...