Bristol Bay and the Alaska Peninsula are famous for having some of the largest brown bears in the world and is a trophy hunting mecca. Historically in Unit 9, trophy brown bear hunts are held in ...

The Bristol Bay region of southwest Alaska is home to the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world. It’s also home to enormous deposits of copper, gold and molybdenum that have been estimated ...

The E.P.A. has proposed to ban the disposal of mining waste in the Bristol Bay watershed, a decision that very likely means the end of the Pebble Mine project.

In 2014, after three years of peer-reviewed study, the Obama administration’s EPA invoked a rarely used provision of the Clean Water Act to try to protect Bristol Bay after finding that a mine ...

For the fewer than a hundred people that make up the entire population of Port Heiden, Alaska, fishing provides both a ...

“Bristol Bay has supported Native Americans in the Alaska region for centuries,” Obama said in a video message released Tuesday. “It supports $2 billion in the commercial fishing industry.

The Bristol Bay region in southwest Alaska is home to the world’s largest sockeye salmon run, a resource that brings in $1.5 billion annually and provides a vital food source for thousands of ...

ANCHORAGE — Bristol Bay is a place defined by salmon. For those of us who live and work in this region of wetlands, rivers and tundra, our lives revolve around this amazing fish.

Alaska’s Bristol Bay region is an outstanding example of America’s conservation economy, with a thriving salmon fishery that supports the equivalent of nearly 10,000 full-time jobs, $1.5 ...

In 2013, Bjørn Olson decided to fatbike and packraft from Cook Inlet to Bristol Bay via the northern shore of 77-mile long Lake Iliamna. He joked — well, it might not entirely be a joke ...

Salmon sizes in Bristol Bay and elsewhere have trended down in recent decades. This year, the average sockeye salmon weight was 4.53 pounds, the smallest on record, according to the department.

President Obama announced Tuesday evening that future oil and gas exploration would be banned on Bristol Bay. President Obama announced Tuesday evening that future oil and gas exploration would be ...