Over 20 years ago, I was hired to enlist support from Southeast Alaska communities for removal of the four Lower Snake River Dams. This was my introduction to Southeast Alaska’s salmon troll fishermen ...

Jun. 8—More than 100 salmon trollers packed a Sitka meeting Wednesday night with sharp questions about the future of an iconic Southeast Alaska fishery, facing what could be an unprecedented full ...

Sitka troller Eric Jordan helped found the Alaska Marine Conservation Council, and was on the board of directors of the Sitka Conservation Society for 20 years. (Courtesy Bethany Goodrich/Sitka ...

ASTORIA — John Hill has stories to tell about troll fishing. Through five decades and three troll boats, Hill fished for salmon on the West Coast from Eureka, Calif., to Alaska. Hill retired in 1985, ...

Folks following the Wild Fish Conservancy lawsuit that seeks to shut down commercial king salmon fishing in Southeast Alaska may not be aware of the defendants (NOAA, State of Alaska, Alaska Trollers ...

A panel of federal judges will hear oral arguments on Thursday, in an appeal of a lower court ruling that threatened to halt the Southeast troll fishery for king salmon. The Alaska Trollers ...

In the most-read story of last week, Chinook salmon trollers in Southeast Alaska were dealt a win by the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a multi-year lawsuit brought by the environmental group ...

Re: “Shutting down salmon trollers won’t save endangered orcas” [June 26, Opinion]: Tim Bristol’s Op-Ed decrying the application of the Endangered Species Act to try to prevent the extinction of ...

FILE - A troller fishes in Sitka Sound, Alaska on February 2, 2021. A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, halted a lower court ruling that would have shut down southeast Alaska's chinook ...