The People Reviving Ancient Salmon Traps—and the Photographer Documenting Them

www.sierraclub.org

This river-based method could preserve both salmon populations and local livelihoods

America Is the World’s Most Abundant Source of Wild Salmon — Why Are We Still Eating Farmed?

www.foodandwine.com

Wild salmon is abundant in Alaska and coveted by chefs — but most Americans eat the cheaper, milder farmed kind. Journalist Kim Cross set out to learn why — and how to cook the real thing right.

King Charles’s Crony Catches the Salmon of the Year

www.newyorker.com

A Park Avenue finance guy goes fishing with a royal nanny and hooks a fifty-two-pounder.Unless you’ve been living under a rock submerged in Norway’s Alta River and have gills, you probably missed the news announced in a press-release-style note last…

The Salmon on Your Plate Has a Troubling Cost. These Farms Offer Hope.

New York Times

Land-based aquaculture is still coming into its own, but it stands to upend an industry plagued by environmental concerns.

With Dams Removed, Salmon Will Have the Run of a Western River

The Klamath River was once so flush with fish that local tribes ate salmon at every meal: flame-roasted filets on redwood skewers, stews flavored with fish tails, strips of smoky, dried salmon.

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

Grist

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 of St. Mary’s where Fitka grew up, she and her family fished for days on end.

River and Sky: A fish biologist’s perspective of counting salmon from the air

East Idaho News

SALMON RIVER — On a chilly morning, I’m awake and alert as I can be. I’m strapped into a helicopter seat, flight helmet on, doors off, safety checks done, GPS in one hand, radio in the other and a data sheet secured to my thigh.