Ash from the 1912 Novarupta eruption periodically hits the west side of Kodiak Island, Larsen Bay and Karluk, roughly 65 ...

The Limited Entry Act was created to manage open-access chaos. When Alaska gained statehood in 1959, there were no limits to who could fish. This led to ballooning participation, and by the early ...

Louise Stutes, R-Kodiak, has paused work on House Bill 117, which would allow setnet fishermen to pool their fish as a cooperative before sending them to a fishing tender for processing.

Alaska's burgeoning mariculture industry is giving an industry update on the final day at ComFish. Kodiak Island's villages ...

State prosecutors have accused Kodiak fisher Duncan Fields and other ... allowing the family to bypass state limits on individual ownership. Alaska Beacon is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit ...

A Bristol Bay sockeye salmon "mob" gathers in August 2004 in the Wood River, which flows into the Nushagak River just north of Dillingham. (Photo by Thomas Quinn/, University of Washington) ...