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Recent cuts to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services could end programs that are “critical” for commercial fishing ...
Alaska’s commercial fishing industry is facing a perfect storm of poor markets, low prices, and rising barriers of entry, but ...
State prosecutors have accused Kodiak fisher Duncan Fields and other members of his family of defrauding the state and fish ...
The Fields family has been setnetting in Kodiak since 1961. But the state says their longstanding method of seasonal gifting ...
Longtime Kodiak setnetter and fisheries advocate Duncan Fields is being charged with multiple criminal counts related to ...
Duncan grew up fishing on his father’s seiner in ... the research and planning project leader at Alaska’s Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission. Those numbers vary, depending on how well ...
Alaska Sea Grant is hosting a one-day “Business of Fishing” workshop on Saturday, April 29 at 9 a.m. at the UAS Ketchikan ...
Bruce Schactler is the marketing chairman for United Fishermen of Alaska, which promotes the state’s commercial fishing industry. He sees potential for Alaska to fill that gap. “We're all sort ...
Over 6000 tons of herring have been harvested so far in the Sitka Sound Sac Roe herring fishery. The commercial fishery ...
The Alaska Wildlife Troopers have charged four members of the Fields family and their company, Fields & Sons Inc., with ...
From the Atlantic to Alaska, fishermen say overfishing and fleet delays are shaking up a $320 billion industry.
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is announcing the 2025 sport fishing regulations for king salmon in marine waters of ...