Bristol Bay sockeye salmon returned in record numbers this season, and while much of the focus is on the bumper year in the Bay, all is not rosy statewide. The Nushagak River system on the ...

If you look at a map of Alaska, near the peninsula that juts out like a tusk into the Bering sea, is a place called Bristol Bay. The Bristol Bay watershed produces around 46 percent of the world's ...

It would take a bit of effort and more than a little luck, but if there was any place where such a fishing fantasy could come true, it’s the Bristol Bay region — a sport-fishing Mecca in a ...

The Bristol Bay fishing season is wrapping up. The bay had a record sockeye salmon return this season. The salmon run, upwards of 70 million, was far and away the largest in recorded history.

SEATTLE — Federal officials said Tuesday they would not block a proposed copper and gold mine near Alaska’s Bristol Bay despite objections by critics who contend it would imperil a fishery and ...

A drilling rig is shown at the site of the Pebble Mine Project in Alaska's Bristol Bay region. (Michael Conathan) Last week, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy spent ...