Species and Run Forecasts

Restoring and Celebrating Yukon Pacific Salmon

Monitoring Run Trends, Maximizing Spawning Potential, and Safeguarding Ancestral Knowledge Transfer for the Future of Our Rivers

Yukon River Salmon Run Forecast 2025

Our goal for Yukon River salmon is to maximize the number of salmon reaching the spawning grounds. It is crucial to ensure as many eggs as possible are deposited in the gravel for the next generation.

Chinook Run Forecast
The current run forecast for Chinook on the Yukon River is 0%.
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Chum Run Forecast
The current run forecast for Chum on the Yukon River is 0%.
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Porcupine River Salmon Forecasts 2025

Our goal for Porcupine River salmon is to maximize the number of salmon reaching the spawning grounds. It is crucial to ensure as many eggs as possible are deposited in the gravel for the next generation.

Chinook Run Forecast
The current run forecast for Chinook on the Porcupine River is 0%.
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Chum Run Forecast
The current run forecast for Chum on the Porcupine River is 11%.
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Coho Run Forecast
The current run forecast for Coho on the Porcupine River is 30%.
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Alsek River Salmon Forecast 2025

Our goal for Alsek River salmon is to celebrate the salmon returning to the Alsek system and embrace opportunities to pass on our traditional knowledge to the younger generation. We hope to teach them traditional harvest methods an the best ways to prepare salmon.

Chinook Run Forecast
The current run forecast for Chinook on the Alsek River is 30%.
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Sockeye Run Forecast
The current run forecast for Sockeye on the Alsek River is 45%.
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Coho Run Forecast
The current run forecast for Coho on the Alsek River is 56%.
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A close-up underwater photograph of a red spawning salmon swimming through bubbles over a rocky riverbed.

Salmon Management

Long-term trends contributing to the declining abundance of salmon are far reaching and include concerns over food security, ecosystem deficiencies, and a lack of cultural connection and knowledge transfer for Yukon First Nations.

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Yukon Salmon

Salmon plays an integral role in Yukon First Nations culture and provides food security. The Yukon is home to four species of anadromous Pacific Salmon.

Intricate beadwork of a Chinook salmon featuring shimmering forest green and gold scales along the back, transitioning to a white beaded belly.
Stormy Bradley • Chinook - Beading
Detailed beadwork of a spawning Coho salmon with a vibrant red body, a dark green head, and a characteristic hooked jaw.
Stormy Bradley • Coho - Beading
Beadwork of a Chum salmon in spawning colors, showing distinct vertical purple and maroon stripes over a green and yellow body.
Stormy Bradley • Chum - Beading
Beaded Sockeye salmon depicting its spawning phase with a brilliant red body, a sharp green head, and a white lower jaw, outlined in teal beads.
Stormy Bradley • Sockeye - Beading

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A young child seen from behind, wearing traditional Indigenous buckskin regalia with long fringe, intricate floral embroidery, and a vibrant purple floral headscarf at an outdoor cultural event.

Salmon Knowledge Hub

The Yukon Salmon Knowledge Hub is a three-year initiative funded by the Canadian Mountain Network and administered by the Council of Yukon First Nations.

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