Nine crew members of a commercial crab boat were hoisted to safety after the boat named the Arctic Sea grounded on an Alaska ...

Sea trials are set for mid-January on a vintage Southeast Alaska fishing vessel being equipped with a hybrid engine that will ...

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 ...

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 ...

Keith Catalano Wilson grew up in Naknek, Alaska, went away to college and then on to other places. He now lives with his wife ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The life story of Ron Charles guides readers through the history and issues going back decades in Washington state.

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 ...