A federal grand jury in Alaska has indicted five commercial fishermen accused of orchestrating a long-running illegal halibut harvest scheme in Southeast Alaska. The case centers around the fishing ...

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, ...

It was the third time in the last decade that the Alaska Department of Fish and Game closed king salmon fishing early at the ...

Alaska fishermen are grizzly bears–hibernating throughout the winter, only to arrive on the Bristol Bay watershed during the short summer sockeye season, relying on those salmon to build resilience ...

A state legislative committee has ordered an audit of the Alaska Board of Fisheries, launching a review of the past three years of the board's processes after a state lawmaker said ...

Corey Ercolani pulled a northern pike from a gillnet and slit its belly with a knife. Inside its guts lay fresh evidence of a ...

Skiffs sit on shore in the Southwest Alaska fishing town of King Cove. (Photo by James Brooks via Flickr under Creative Commons license) The fishing fleet in the Southwest Alaska town of King Cove ...

Balloon debris recovered off the coast of Alaska earlier this month appears to have been in the water for “well over a year,” a Pentagon official said Friday. The remnants of the object were ...

A lawmaker and chair of a seafood task force for the US state of Alaska said a proposal to create a health insurance pool for commercial fishermen is being floated to help buoy the beleaguered seafood ...