Venturing into deep, often treacherous waters. Winching ropes in gale-force winds. Leaning into waves that whip over the bows of their boats. Commercial fishermen face extraordinary on-the-job hazards ...

Jared Danielson was having a slow day of salmon fishing off the Alaska Peninsula, the long finger of land jutting toward the Aleutian Islands. While his fishing net bobbed in the water, he had time ...

Commercial and recreational salmon fishing in the federal waters of Cook Inlet will resume this summer, but under new management by the federal government, according to a rule made final this week.

In the heart of winter, as the snow dumps down on my hometown of Homer and I move through the Kodiak crab season, I find myself reflecting on the critical role salmon play in our state. Alaska’s ...

Herring boats, Unalakleet harbor, Norton Sound. August 1991. Even as safety has improved vastly in the Alaska fishing industry overall, harvesters who operate from small, open skiffs continue to face ...

A federal judge has upheld the National Marine Fisheries Service’s new system to manage commercial harvests in federal waters of Cook Inlet, concluding that the agency has no obligation to extend that ...

KENAI, Alaska—Sockeye salmon are plentiful in the waters off this peninsula south of Anchorage, but Brent Johnson isn’t allowed to catch them. In an effort to save the king salmon, whose numbers have ...

Environmentalists are suing NOAA for failing to issue an Endangered Species Act listing decision for Gulf of Alaska chinook salmon within one year of receiving a petition to protect the species. In a ...