Bering Sea crabbers will see a boost in catch limits this season, after years of cancellations and small harvests due to low ...

HOMER — On a brilliant spring morning, Buck Laukitis, a longtime fisherman from this Kenai Peninsula town, stood at the city dock watching his catch come ashore. Crew members aboard Laukitis’ boat, ...

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 ...

The state’s high court said that because the lawsuit didn’t challenge a specific policy, law or regulation, the case should ...

A commercial Dungeness crab harvester from Alaska has pled guilty to stealing a rival fishers’ gear in a deal that will see him serve jail time, forfeit his fishing vessel, and pay restitution to the ...

For the organization that oversees commercial fisheries in federal waters off Alaska, the most significant impact of the ...

Salmon fisherman stack their nets on June 22, 2023, in Kodiak, Alaska. A group of lawmakers from New England and Alaska introduced a proposal Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, that says a federal program that ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Recent cuts to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services could end programs that are “critical” for commercial fishing safety in Alaska, according to the Alaska Marine ...

Before Jake Hannah, 22, left for his commercial fishing trip on Saturday night, he called his mother, who lives in his hometown of Coos Bay. “He said, ‘Hey mom, we’re getting ready to go out, I love ...

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 ...