The commercial fishing season in Kotzebue came to a close Friday, and while both the chum salmon run and the payout to fishermen pales in comparison to the gargantuan success of last year ...

Because none of the processing is done in Kotzebue, the fish have to be flown out daily. Several carriers of the commercial and freight varieties work long hours during the fishing season ...

In 1997 we moved away from the Arctic. Decades later we had sheefish to thank for bringing us back. Despite the slow fishing that evening on Kotzebue Sound, Tiffany and I we enjoying ourselves. It was ...

66, for "waste of salmon" after he allegedly abandoned a half shackle of commercial gillnet filled with 103 salmon in the waters of the Kotzebue Commercial Fishing District. Troopers did not ...

Kotzebue sits about 40 kilometers above the ... The two of us are crammed into the tiny cabin of Schaeffer’s fishing boat in the just-light hours of a drizzly September 2022 morning.

Kotzebue sits about 40 kilometers north of ... The two of us are crammed into the tiny cabin of Schaeffer’s fishing boat in the just-light hours of a drizzly September 2022 morning.

All over the community of Kotzebue, the past seems to be part of the immediate present. The community of 3,100 people relies on subsistence hunting and fishing and has seen the military come and go.