Salmon fishing boats operate outside of the Southeast Alaska town of Sitka. Many coastal Alaskans say that a half-century of the state's limited-entry system for commercial fishing has resulted in ...

For the second time ever, Alaska went a year with zero fatalities in its commercial fishing industry. The U.S. Coast Guard reported that there were no operational fatalities from Oct. 1, 2021 to ...

There were no fatalities within Alaska’s commercial fishing fleets this year, for only the second time on record. The U.S. Coast Guard says the credit belongs to the fishermen themselves.

Fishing boats line a dock at Kodiak's St. Paul Harbor on Oct. 3. Alaska accounted for a little over a third of the nation's commercial fishing deaths in the past decade.

The commercial fishing industry in Alaska is shrinking. Fewer young people are seeking a career in the industry due to high entry costs and climate change impacting fish stocks.

Sitka Rep. Rebecca Himschoot, who represents multiple Southeast Alaska fishing hub towns, as well as small Native communities that have seen sharp losses in permit ownership, said that the ...

Commercial fishing remains one of the most dangerous jobs in the nation, ... Other Alaska fishing beneficiaries include Taku Fisheries in Juneau and Fields Wild Salmon of Kodiak.

The report's authors also pointed out that "From 2000 to 2010, 545 commercial fishermen died in the U.S., reported NIOSH, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The U.S. government rejected an emergency request from 100 tribes and communities in Western Alaska for a zero-bycatch limit on salmon, which would have effectively halted the nation’s largest ...

The Magnuson Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act is a tale of two cities. Talk to the commercial fishermen in Alaska and they will say it is working.

Coastal Alaskans see commercial fishing limits as a ‘crisis.’ Lawmakers don’t. Legislature adjourned without addressing expanding access to commercial fishing careers.