Talk Of Alaska

Two people pick up donations of chum and king salmon that will be distributed to villages along the lower Yukon river. (Olivia Ebertz/KYUK) The Chinook salmon fishery on the Yukon has been in decline for years, but this fall chum salmon numbers also collapsed and all subsistence and commercial salmon fishing was shut down on the Yukon. That left fishermen and families without a vital source of income and food for the coming winter. What’s known about the causes and consequences of the fisheries collapse? How are communities responding? Listen: HOST: Lori Townsend GUESTS: Holly Carroll, Yukon River Subsistence Fishery Manager, U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceSabrina Garcia, Marine Research Biologist, Alaska Department of Fish and GameAlida Trainor, Subsistence Resource Specialist, Alaska Department of Fish and Game Rhonda Pitka, First Chief of the Village of Beaver Brooke Woods, Chair, Yukon River Intertribal Fish Commission LINKS & RESOURCES: Yukon subsistence users go to new le