Alaska Public Media

On the Yukon, Alaska and Canada are bound together by salmon – and their collapse

Yukon river residents are not able to make dry fish from chum and chinook for the year in a row. (Shane Iverson/KYUK) The Yukon River covers a lot of ground on its nearly 2,000 mile journey to the sea ...
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Alaskan frustration grows over trawling during the Yukon River salmon moratorium

The Yukon River salmon count has begun at the Canada-U.S. border, and experts and officials expect to see around 25,000 chinook by the end of the summer — well short of the bilateral target of 71,000.
Alaska Public Media

Amid salmon crash, Alaska’s Yukon River residents say a new pact with Canada leaves them behind

This reporting was supported by a Carnegie Foundation Fellowship. Writers Olivia Ebertz and Bathsheba Demuth boated more than 1,000 miles up and down the Yukon River last summer, hearing the stories ...
The Washington Post

There’s a crisis in the Yukon River

EAGLE VILLAGE, Alaska — When Jody Potts-Joseph was growing up, her family mushed sled dogs during the harsh Alaskan winters to hunt and trap, feeding them salmon caught from the Yukon River by the ...