Kings of the wild frontier

Every year, king salmon swim 2,000 miles up Alaska’s Yukon river to spawn. Their journey is vital to the native people and animals – but now the numbers are dwindling. One man followed their run to find out whyIn 2013, I sat in a courtroom in Bethel, Alaska, and watched the trial of 23 Yup’ik fishermen, accused of flouting a ban on the fishing of king salmon the previous summer. The ban had been implemented by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game as king salmon numbers plumme