Edible Alaska

Kings in Check

• A summer chum salmon split for drying in the Yukon Delta village of Emmonak. Chum have become more important with the decline in kings, although they have also seen low runs in some of the past few years. Photo by Bathsheba Demuth.

• Photo by Bathsheba Demuth

  ADF&G employees pull in a test net to tag a king salmon on the lower Yukon River.

• Photo by Bathsheba Demuth

  Mending a net for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, part of a radio tagging project to track kings in 2023. Photos by Bathsheba Demuth.

• The 1,890 mile long Yukon River begins in northwestern British Columbia, flows north into the Yukon territory, then across Alaska to the Bering Sea. “Map of Yukon River Watershed” by Karl Musser, CC BY-SA 3.0.

• Photo by Bathsheba Demuth

  King salmon strips cut and ready for the smokehouse.