Commercial fishing in Alaska, long notorious as a dangerous and potentially deadly occupation, is getting safer, according to data presented this month to federal regulators. Alaska fishing-related ...

HOMER — On a brilliant spring morning, Buck Laukitis, a longtime fisherman from this Kenai Peninsula town, stood at the city dock watching his catch come ashore. Crew members aboard Laukitis’ boat, ...

Salmon fisherman stack their nets on June 22, 2023, in Kodiak, Alaska. A group of lawmakers from New England and Alaska introduced a proposal Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, that says a federal program that ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Recent cuts to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services could end programs that are “critical” for commercial fishing safety in Alaska, according to the Alaska Marine ...

SEATTLE — A ruling from a U.S. judge in Seattle could effectively shut down commercial king salmon trolling in Southeast Alaska — a valuable industry that supports some 1,500 fishermen — after a ...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game released its preliminary summary of the 2025 Upper Cook Inlet salmon fishery season. The report found that although numbers of all salmon species besides sockeye ...

Fishing boats are lines up on Oct. 3, 2022, at a dock at Kodiak’s St. Paul Harbor. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy has appointed a GOP advertising consultant ...

Wild Fish Conservancy has filed a lawsuit that could effectively end commercial king salmon trolling in southeast Alaska. The conservation group claimed Alaska’s salmon harvesting threatens endangered ...

KENAI, Alaska, November 5, 2021 (ENS) – The Biden Administration has closed the federal waters of Alaska’s Cook Inlet to commercial salmon fishing for the 2022 Cook Inlet commercial salmon fishing ...

The practice of harvesting and trading herring eggs for subsistence is an old one in Southeast Alaska. But it’s one that’s threatened by commercial fishing activity and shortened harvesting periods, a ...

Shaun Roche, a commercial fisherman and urchin diver from Santa Barbara, became the victim of a freak accident on a commercial fishing boat in the final hours of the sockeye salmon season in Bristol ...

In mid-October, the Alaska Department of Fish and Wildlife announced that it would be canceling the winter snow crab season. This is the first time the snow crab season has been canceled in the Bering ...