The commercial fishing season in Kotzebue came to a close Friday, ... and this was the third best harvest in over 25 years in the Kotzebue fishery,” said Alaska Department of the Fish and Game ...

Commercial fishermen in the Arctic are readying their nets and boats in preparation for next month s chum run in the Kotzebue region. And after last year s second-highest run on record, all ...

For the first time in three years, Kotzebue commercial fishermen will have two buyers to sell their fish to. Listen now. According to Jim Menard, the area manager for the commercial fisheries ...

We were sitting on the frozen sound of Kotzebue, Alaska, our breaths mingling in the still air. It was March, and the first time in 21 years that Tiffany and I had been in Alaska’s Arctic together.

A Kotzebue commercial fisherman faces charges of waste after he left more than 100 salmon caught in a gillent to rot, Alaska State Troopers say. Troopers issued a summons Aug. 6 for Roswell ...

Alaska Natives, who make up about three-quarters of Kotzebue’s population, pull hundreds of kilograms of food out of the sea every year. “We’re ocean people,” Schaeffer tells me.

KOTZEBUE, Alaska --President Barack Obama crossed the Arctic Circle on Wednesday in a first by a sitting U.S. president, ... As he flew to Kotzebue from the fishing village of Dillingham, ...

Kotzebue sits about 40 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, on Alaska’s western coastline. Before the Russian explorer Otto von Kotzebue had his name attached to the place in the 1800s, the ...

NOME, Alaska - A Kotzebue fisherman faces a charge of wasting fish after the Alaska State Troopers say he left salmon caught in a gill net to rot. Troopers said Roswell Schaeffer Sr., 66, left ...