June 5, 2024 –No chinooks, but chum salmon will be available for subsistence harvest in the Yukon River this year.
Each year the salmon runs are meant to bring much needed food for folks that rely on subsistence fishing along the Yukon River. These runs have struggled to do just that in recent years as the chinook salmon runs have been well below average and smaller than the minimum escapement goals for the Yukon River Fishery. Such being the case, there will be no chinook salmon harvest once more.
There is work underway to better understand the decreasing runs.