For the past few years, smokehouses in the Yukon River village of Anvik have sat empty. After salmon populations crashed, dozens of Alaska Native communities along the river faced a stark new reality, one without the fish that fed families and sustained Yup’ik and Athabascan traditions for generations. This summer, though, smoke once again wafted […]
Oregon fishermen will begin testing ropeless crabbing technology next spring in an effort to save whales from often-fatal entanglements. The state since 2021 has taken steps to reduce whale entanglements, including requiring additional late season crabbing tags and limiting how many crabbing pots fishermen can use and how deep they can place them, Oregon Department […]
Lobsters have long reigned as king among New Hampshire’s shelled sea creatures, but the chances of a coup are growing — and climate change is tipping the scales. Indeed, said biologist Christopher Peters in an interview this summer, it may already be the case that “the lobster is no longer the king crustacean of the […]
The Lost Trail Powder Mountain ski area is not for sale, but a nearby chunk of land is being marketed for sale as "Lost Trail Ski Hill Retreat."
HOMER, La. - Routine law enforcement patrols and proactive safety enforcement have kept Lake Claiborne State Park free of fatal boating incidents for several years, according to local park officials.
When 26-year-old Tirzah Bryant was a kid, she knew how to watch the cottonwood trees along the Yukon River for the sign that it was time to fish for salmon. “We know that the fish are coming when the cotton’s flying from the cottonwood,” she said. But run collapses and successive fishing closures along the […]
HOMER, La. - A nine-year stocking program at Lake Claiborne is yielding dramatic results for local anglers, turning the North Louisiana reservoir into a premier destination for trophy bass.
When Stan Zuray began noticing white spots, a mushy texture and a weird “sour watermelon” smell in the Chinook salmon he was pulling from the Yukon River, he knew something was going wrong. That was back in the 1980s. By about 1990, he and others just stopped fishing what he calls “the ass end of […]
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks says additional hoot-owl fishing restrictions will take effect July 22 on several rivers statewide as rising water temperatures and low flows increase stress on fish.
News release from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks
