SEATTLE (AP) — The summer cookout season is heralded each spring by the arrival of the first Copper River salmon from Alaska. An Alaska Air Cargo plane from Cordova touched down Friday morning and the ...

Alaska commercial fishers caught much more salmon in 2025 than they did last year, but the money they earned was modest, ...

Wild, rugged, deep: Sounds like my ideal online date’s profile, but this being a culinary column, Alaska’s Copper River will suffice. That’s the glacier-fed venue for some of the world’s best salmon, ...

Copper River salmon season kicked off on May 22 in Alaska and typically peaks during June and July. For those who love salmon, the wild species of fish (including Sockeye, Coho and more rarely King ...

The first shipment of Alaska’s Copper River salmon arrived at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Tuesday morning, marking the start of the season. The Alaska Air flight carrying 18,000 pounds of ...

Alaska Airlines has stopped rolling out the red carpet for the opening of Alaska’s salmon season. The airline has paused a 15-year-old program that celebrates the Copper River salmon run, one of ...

Trident Seafoods, Copper River Prince William Sound Marketing Association, Alaska Airlines and Chef Tom Douglas Partner to Bring the Prized Fish to Consumers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, the first ...

Copper River salmon season has officially kicked off as the Alaska Air flight — carrying 18,000 pounds of salmon — arrived at the Alaska Air Cargo Warehouse at 8:25 a.m. Tuesday. The first 34-pound ...

Justin Johnson surveyed his nets and the large net reel of his bowpicker the F/V White Night at the Cordova Harbor in early June, as he prepared for the next day’s opener. “So a 20 pound king is a ...

It’s a great time of year for fish lovers. Alaska Airlines is preparing to deliver the year’s first shipment of Copper River Salmon. “This fish is some of the world’s finest fish,” according to Alaska ...

Federal authorities say seven Steller sea lions were found shot to death in the surf near Cordova after the Copper River salmon fishing season got underway in mid-May. The National Oceanic and ...