The Alaska Board of Fisheries has announced a reduction in fishing opportunity for chum salmon by 30 per cent in southwest ...

June 28 (Reuters) - Large areas of federal land in Alaska will be protected from development to conserve fish and wildlife habitats that are important to native communities' way of life, under two ...

Alaska’s salmon sector has long fought for chum salmon bycatch restrictions, but the NPFMC maintains its stance that that type of salmon is not native to the area, and that Alaskan pollock trawlers ...

Climate change threatens many traditional foods in Alaska. But it's also making farming more possible. A new training program aims to help Alaska... You buy fish from Alaska. Soon you might get your ...

It’s been three years since a crash in king salmon populations forced an outright ban on fishing for them in the Yukon River. And barring an unexpected recovery, residents along the river won’t be ...

Butch Laiti is president of the Douglas Indian Association, a tribal government in Juneau. The association has purchased a fishing boat and wants to buy a commercial fishing permit for its members to ...

Bethel, Alaska — Fish camps still dot the banks of the broad Kuskokwim River in southwestern Alaska. Wooden huts and tarped shelters stand beside drying racks draped with bright red strips of salmon, ...

Lawmakers in Alaska are considering legislation that would reign in one of the most controversial and destructive forms of modern commercial fishing. Known as trawling, this technique involves huge ...

HOMER, Alaska — Roarke Brown, a charter boat captain since 1972 in this picturesque fishing village, remembers being able to tread out onto the Kachemak Bay mud flats at low tide to fill a 5-gallon ...