Salmon Fishing USA

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is asking Americans fishing in the Yukon River to voluntarily reduce the number of chinook salmon they catch.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is asking Americans fishing in the Yukon River to voluntarily reduce the number of chinook salmon they catch.

For the second consecutive year, fishermen in the Mat-Su Valley can't cast a line for king salmon. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has closed most of the streams in the area for the rest of the king season.

For the second consecutive year, anglers expecting to spend the July 4 weekend casting for king salmon in Mat-Su rivers and creeks had their plans scuttled on the brink of the holiday when the Alaska Department of Fish and Game shuttered most area waterways for the rest of king season.

A dwindling return of king salmon to the Anchor River has prompted biologists with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to extend a fishing ban at the river's mouth.