Alaska’s Legislature adjourned in May without addressing an issue that many residents of coastal, Native villages see as ...

The totem pole, called a Kootéeyaa in Lingít, was designed and raised to honor the community’s rich fishing history and ...

A permitting system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more profitable. But over the last 50 years, it has hollowed out many ...

FAIRMONT—Fairmont native Jacob Lemon just set out on his third year of leading fishing charters in Alaska through his ...

Looking at the horizon, it looks almost like a black line separating a rough black sea from a small cool, blue side. That’s ...

It's a hundred years of fishing, and trapping, and sort of casual engagement with the market economy, poof, gone. Overnight." Today, Alaska Natives account for just over 15 percent of the total ...

Over 150 Volunteers from Seattle’s Alaska Pollock Fleet Transform End-of-Life Fishing Gear during Recycling Event at Terminal ...

which is critical to Alaska Native culture and rural food security, has suffered in turn, whether it involves Iñupiaq whale hunts, Gwich’in caribou harvest or Tlingit salmon fishing.

In a draft report released in January, a legislative task force noted the “large loss of permits held in rural and Alaska Native fishing communities.” And the new speaker of the state House ...