At this web site, you can learn great things about chum and chinook salmon, the two most common salmon species found in the Yukon River drainage. Explore farther to discover what we're learning about these fish.
Fisheries have some significance to every community in Alaska.
Fish may serve as an important subsistence food source, provide a variety of jobs, or offer recreational opportunities. Salmon are a vital part of food chains in all the habitats they occupy throughout their lives. Eggs and juvenile fish are an important food source in the streams where they hatch. Smolts in estuaries and adults in the ocean are a component of marine food chains. Spawners carry ocean nutrients back to the streams where they are released when the fish die and decay.