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 ...

In the district court, the state argued that the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act doesn’t permit the federal ...

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 ...

Commentary authors Margie Brown and Mark Niver write that they see benefits to legislation to ban bottom trawling in Alaska’s state waters.

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

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 ...