A map showing boundaries of the Egegik fishing district (From Alaska Department of Fish and Game) Tiernan said that during the peak of the season, extra Alaska Wildlife Troopers flood Bristol Bay ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...