Commercial fishing in Alaska, long notorious as a dangerous and potentially deadly occupation, is getting safer, according to data presented this month to federal regulators. Alaska fishing-related ...

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, ...

NOAA cuts, economic headwinds and invasive species pose problems, but there was some recovery in crab stocks and salmon ...

Rep. Louise Stutes, R-Kodiak, speaks to the Alaska House of Representatives on Friday, April 25, 2025. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) To avoid high insurance costs, some groups of commercial ...

The year 2025 turned out to be a rough ride for Alaska's fishing industry and the communities that depend on it for their livelihoods. From deep cuts to federal science funding to ongoing economic pr ...

KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska tribal group has filed a lawsuit against state officials claiming the commercial fishing permit system unfairly prevents local anglers from fishing on their ...

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 ...

Alaska Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka may be reeling from past commercial fishing violations, which her incumbent opponent Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AL) is highlighting in a new attack ad. “Kelly ...

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 ...

Fishing boats are lines up on Oct. 3, 2022, at a dock at Kodiak’s St. Paul Harbor. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy has appointed a GOP advertising consultant ...

Fishing has dangers of its own, but this year the peril is invisible. "It's just how the earth is supposed to be," says third-generation commercial fishing boat captain Katherine Carscallen. She's ...

KENAI, Alaska, November 5, 2021 (ENS) – The Biden Administration has closed the federal waters of Alaska’s Cook Inlet to commercial salmon fishing for the 2022 Cook Inlet commercial salmon fishing ...