In the murky backwaters of Alaska’s Susitna River basin, northern pike are gorging. A peer-reviewed study published in May 2026 in Biological Invasions found that invasive pike in Southcentral Alaska ...

“When we ran the numbers a second time, we thought there had to be an error,” one member of the research team told colleagues after the bioenergetics model returned its results. The pike stomachs ...

Rising temperatures in a Southcentral Alaska river have led to a hungrier population of invasive northern pike, a trend that could imperil native salmon and other fish species. A University of Alaska ...

Invasive northern pike have wreaked havoc in Southcentral Alaska rivers and lakes. Introduced illegally in the 1950s, they have been devouring juvenile salmon and other native species. Now a ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A federal and state study of two Alaska salmon streams indicates that nonnative northern pike can eat significant numbers of salmon smolt and will thrive on other species even ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A northern pike is seen swimming in this undated photo. (Photo provided by the National Park Service) A northern pike is seen ...

Before we get full time into outdoor columns about hunting, let me do a final end-of-summer column about fishing. About a month ago I wrote a column about a wonderful July morning in my fishing boat, ...

A pair of juvenile Chinook salmon emerge from the stomach of a northern pike caught on the Deshka River in Southcentral Alaska. Rising temperatures in a Southcentral Alaska river have led to a ...