Commercial fishing and recreational vessels are docked in the Homer harbor on Oct. 23, 2025. The commercial fishing industry endured a series of challenges over the year, some of them imposed by the ...

Fishing has dangers of its own, but this year the peril is invisible. "It's just how the earth is supposed to be," says third-generation commercial fishing boat captain Katherine Carscallen. She's ...

Those arguments have done little to assuage frustration in Alaska’s salmon industry.

Fishing boats are seen in Kodiak's St. Paul Harbor on Oct. 3, 2022. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) Gov. Mike Dunleavy has canceled a broadly supported bill proposed by a legislative task force ...

Sea trials are set for mid-January on a vintage Southeast Alaska fishing vessel being equipped with a hybrid engine that will ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Recent cuts to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services could end programs that are “critical” for commercial fishing safety in Alaska, according to the Alaska Marine ...

This story was produced as part of the Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. Fellowship and the Public Media Accountability Initiative, which supports investigative reporting at local media outlets around ...

GIG HARBOR, Wash. — The fishing community is a superstitious bunch. Never leave on a Friday. No black suitcases. No umbrellas. No bananas and, of course, no women on board. That changed in the 1970's ...

One of the ideas rising to the top of the Alaska Seafood Task Force’s forthcoming recommendations is an insurance pool for commercial fishermen. The state legislative task force plans to release a ...

The year 2025 turned out to be a rough ride for Alaska's fishing industry and the communities that depend on it for their livelihoods. From deep cuts to federal science funding to ongoing economic ...

Nick Katelnikoff learned to fish from his father, and he says his first paycheck as a fisherman came when he turned 8 years old. Now 76, pictured aboard his boat, the MZ L, he’s the last skipper ...