To me, dip netting at Chitina is the quintessential Alaska experience. There is something primordial about standing on the rocks next to a raging, glacial river, surrounded by the snow-capped Wrangell ...

“You don’t look at who’s got a dip net in the river,” Kramer said. “It’s the long-term, historical use of a resource. Has that stock of salmon been classified as customary and traditional.” In the ...

Reef net fishing intercepts chinook, coho, sockeye, chum and pink salmon as they travel from the Pacific Ocean to spawn in the Fraser River near present-day Washington state and British Columbia.