Alaska’s seafood industry received a significant boost last week as the U.S. federal government awarded nearly $13.7 million in seafood contracts to domestic processors, with Alaska pollock and pink s ...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has released its 2026 Kodiak Management Area (KMA) salmon forecasts.

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For many years, I had the privilege to live and work in the community of Sitaisaq (Brevig Mission). I loved learning about the Inupiaq community’s subsistence lifestyle there, and learning how to ...

Lawmakers in Alaska are considering legislation that would reign in one of the most controversial and destructive forms of modern commercial fishing. Known as trawling, this technique involves huge ...

Tucked between the turquoise waters of the Kenai River and the towering spruce forests of the peninsula lies Soldotna – Alaska’s answer to the question “where can I experience the Last Frontier ...

Tucked between the turquoise ribbon of the Kenai River and the towering spruce forests of the peninsula lies Soldotna – Alaska’s best-kept secret that somehow manages to be both a world-class fishing ...

This story was supported by grants from the Pulitzer Center and the Alaska Center for Excellence in Journalism, in partnership with the Anchorage Daily News and the Northern Journal. ABOARD THE ORACLE ...

Experience the ultra luxury, all-inclusive first-class cruise along Alaska's rugged Southeast coast onboard Silversea's Silver Nova. This video showcases a seven-day journey from Seward, Alaska to ...

Now semi-retired Alaska economist Gunnar Knapp, the nation’s foremost authority on the economics of the Alaska fishing business, offered a blunt warning to the state’s salmon industry seven years ago.

My fishing guide, Shiloh Patterson, vividly remembers the first time he hooked a king salmon back in 1997. The fight lasted only 10 seconds before his line snapped, but it was all he could talk about ...

Thirty-five years ago, Alaska politicians and the politically powerful commercial fishing interests that had long punched above their economic weight in the 49th state were patting themselves on the ...