Over 6000 tons of herring have been harvested so far in the Sitka Sound Sac Roe herring fishery. The commercial fishery ...

Silver Bay Seafoods and Icy Strait Seafoods — are processing herring in Sitka this year, compared to five processors last season ...

I live in the town of Sitka, which is on the outer coast of Baranof Island in southeast Alaska. Unlike the Tlingit and Haida people, I am not Native here. But since I first set foot in Sitka about ...

Seiners scooped up sets of maturing herring on Saturday and Sunday as the Alaska Department of Fish and Game opened this year’s commercial sac roe herring fishery in waters off the east shore of ...

The state will share harvest data from the Sitka Sound Sac Roe herring fishery after all. That’s after participating ...

Charlie Wilber has been fishing out of Sitka for 36 years, 30 of them in the halibut longline fishery. He is a member of the Alaska Longline Fisherman's Association, and sits on the board ...

Dec. 1 (UPI) --Five people are missing after a fishing boat capsized near the tiny southeast Alaskan village of Couverden Point, the U.S. Coast Guard said Sunday. The 50-foot fishing boat Wind ...