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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 ...
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Agreement on Yukon River chinook salmon called essential, but some still have questions

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lone chinook salmon swims by an underwater viewing window at the Whitehorse Fish Ladder in August 2022. A new agreement over ...
Alaska Public Media

Yukon River salmon runs remain low, but glimmers of improvement emerge

Migrating summer chum and Chinook salmon are seen on July 7, 2007, in the Tozitna River, a Yukon River tributary. While salmon returns in the Yukon River continued to be weak this year, there were ...
Los Angeles Times

Yukon River salmon: Hail to the new king

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. When my friend Jon Rowley talks about salmon, I listen. Rowley is the ...
Grist

Salmon are vanishing from the Yukon River — and so is a way of life

Serena Fitka sat in the cabin of a flat-bottomed aluminum boat as it sped down the Yukon River in western Alaska, recalling how the river once ran thick with salmon. Each summer, in the Yup’ik village ...
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 ...