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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The salmon fishing season on Alaska's Copper River, which started on May 16, has been marked with fewer buyers and more uncertainty for harvesters, Alaska Public ...

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 ...

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, ...

TACOMA, Wash. -- The re-opening of Alaska's Taku River for commercial fishing after more than 25 years has given some retailers a head start on selling king salmon this season. Industry sources think ...