The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced Monday that it's nearly doubling the harvest for the upcoming Bering Sea ...

Fishing has dangers of its own, but this year the peril is invisible. "It's just how the earth is supposed to be," says third-generation commercial fishing boat captain Katherine Carscallen. She's ...

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 bucket with clams ...

A commercial Dungeness crab harvester from Alaska has pled guilty to stealing a rival fishers’ gear in a deal that will see ...

Fishing boats are lines up on Oct. 3, 2022, at a dock at Kodiak’s St. Paul Harbor. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy has appointed a GOP advertising consultant ...

This story was produced as part of the Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. Fellowship and the Public Media Accountability Initiative, which supports investigative reporting at local media outlets around ...

Sep. 9—A 27-year-old crew member died last week after he was fatally injured while working aboard a commercial fishing vessel in the Aleutian Islands. Alaska State Troopers and the boat owner on ...

There is no more salmon. That's what native Alaskan Ricko DeWilde is most concerned with these days. The cast member and segment producer on National Geographic's, "Life Below Zero: First Alaskans," ...

JUNEAU-- Western Alaska's commercial fishing industry, beset with dwindling numbers of salmon and chilling prices, was declared an economic disaster by Gov. Tony Knowles on Friday. The Knowles ...

GIG HARBOR, Wash. — The fishing community is a superstitious bunch. Never leave on a Friday. No black suitcases. No umbrellas. No bananas and, of course, no women on board. That changed in the 1970's ...

Questions over former congresswoman Mary Peltola’s future continue to remain up in the air after she left the AFN stage.

Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy has appointed a GOP advertising consultant and talk show host to a highly paid state government job: a position overseeing commercial fishing permits. Dunleavy ...