Life aboard a vessel in Alaska brings close contact with rugged coastlines and untamed terrain. The experience includes ...

Gov. Mike Dunleavy has canceled a broadly supported bill proposed by a legislative task force and intended to help commercial ...

Alaska’s fishing boats are weathering an unprecedented storm. By Tyson Fick. ... July 3, 2020. Commercial fishing boat moored in Dillingham on Monday, August 26, 2013, after the sockeye salmon ...

As of mid-November, Alaska had gone 17 months without a commercial fishing fatality, which Dzugan said is a record. Many of Alaska’s fishing vessels are aging, but that is not necessarily a ...

The shutdown has closed much of the National Marine Fisheries Service, which oversees Bering Sea fisheries off the Alaska coast. Industry workers don't know when boats will get needed authorizations.

Unalaska, Alaska — A factory fishing vessel that docked in the Alaska fishing port of Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands had 85 crew members on board infected with the coronavirus, officials said.

On fishing vessels harvesting ... there have been calls to increase observer coverage in the federally managed fisheries off Alaska. About half the 463 vessels engaged in those federally ...