Alaska Fishermen Struggle as Rules to Save King Salmon Limit Their Catch

KENAI, Alaska—Sockeye salmon are plentiful in the waters off this peninsula south of Anchorage, but Brent Johnson isn’t allowed to catch them.

In an effort to save the king salmon, whose numbers have been decimated by factors including warming waters, state regulators this year banned the use of fishing nets in the Kenai area—the latest in a series of restrictions that have angered local fishermen.