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[39] [40] In 2010, the Alaska Department of Fish & Game's Board of Fisheries issued the first-ever restriction for net mesh size on the Yukon, reducing it to 7.5 inches (190 mm). [41] In 2021, the Alaska Department of Fish & Game's Division of Commercial Fisheries banned all fishing of Chinook and chum salmon, including for subsistence. [37] [42]
The Koyukon Athabascans had seasonal camps in the area and moved as the wild game migrated. In the summer many families floated on rafts to the Yukon River to fish for salmon. There were 12 summer fish camps located on the Yukon River between the Koyukuk River and the Nowitna River. Galena was established in 1920 near an Athabascan fish camp ...
The conditions on Fish Lake are also warm and treacherous leading to decisions about whether to retrieve fallen game or not. With the conditions so warm and the ice cover on the rivers melting so fast, if they stay too long at the hunting grounds they won't be able to get back home safely and the recent tragedy in town weighs heavily on ...
Yukon covers 482,443 km 2, of which 474,391 km 2 is land and 8,052 km 2 is water, making it the forty-first largest subnational entity in the world, and, among the fifty largest, the least populous. Yukon is bounded on the south by the 60th parallel of latitude. Its northern coast is on the Beaufort Sea. Its western boundary is 141° west ...
Lakes in Yukon by size and elevation Lake Length Width Area Elevation Average depth Maximum depth Notes Sources km mi km mi km 2 sq mi m ft m ft m ft Aishihik Lake: 53 33: 6 3.7: 147.47 56.94: 930 3,050: 35.5 116: 120 390 [2]: 8 [3] Alligator Lake: 6.3 2.4: 5.4 18 [4] Annie Lake: 2.41 1.50: 107 351: Also partly in British Columbia [5] Atlin ...
A newly released image showing the UFO that was shot down by a US fighter jet over Canada in 2023 has added more questions and uncertainty to the object floating over the Yukon.. The grainy ...
There is an unresolved dispute involving a wedge-shaped slice on the International Boundary in the Beaufort Sea, between the Canadian territory of Yukon and the U.S. state of Alaska. Canada claims the maritime boundary to be along the 141st meridian west out to a distance of 200 nmi (370 km; 230 mi), following the Alaska–Yukon land border.
Little Salmon is located on the Robert Campbell Highway between Faro and Carmacks, and stretches along the lake of the same name and the Yukon River. The only non-residential establishment is the Yukon government highway maintenance camp at Drury Creek. It was formerly an important settlement of the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation.