A permitting system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more ...

The Bering Sea snow crab fishery reopened in mid-October, after billions of the crab disappeared and the fishery was shut ...

“It was just, like, a wall,” he said. Bristol Bay fishing boats sit at a dock, likely in the 1960s. Scores of new fishermen had entered the industry in the 1950s and 1960s amid Alaska’s ...

Each spring, about half the village’s 30 families would push their fishing boats into the water, run the 120 miles down the Nushagak River into Bristol Bay and spend the summer catching salmon ...

Last year’s lower-than-average Bristol Bay salmon harvest likely went a long way toward long-term polarization of the drift ...

“If you’ve got young people who live in the fishing communities where the fisheries occur and they don’t see that as an opportunity, that’s bad public policy,” said Rachel Donkersloot, a researcher ...

Gov. Mike Dunleavy has introduced legislation to set a statewide tracking system in place for sexual assault kits, and ensure ...

She spent two summers covering the Bristol Bay fishing season. Originally from Oakland, California, she got her start as a reporter, then morning show producer, at KPFA Radio in Berkeley.