Alaska’s “limited entry” permit system was intended to reduce overharvesting while preserving local harvests. In Kodiak ... permits to crew members each fishing season, and then the crew ...

State prosecutors have accused Kodiak fisher Duncan Fields and other ... allowing the family to bypass state limits on individual ownership. Alaska Beacon is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit ...

House Bill 116, sponsored by the House Special Committee on Fisheries at the request of the Joint Legislative Task Force ...

Alaska officials say the changes could make fishing less safe and undermine science critical to managing fisheries.

In September, two Kodiak trawlers accidentally caught 2,000 ... Begich and Peltola differ on the use of foreign workers in Alaska’s fishing industry. Seafood processors frequently bring in ...

A Bristol Bay sockeye salmon "mob" gathers in August 2004 in the Wood River, which flows into the Nushagak River just north of Dillingham. (Photo by Thomas Quinn/, University of Washington) ...

Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan as well as Rep. Nick Begich III all gave speeches at ComFish, Kodiak's annual ...

About 13,000 people live on Kodiak Island; yet it is the second largest island in the USA, having about the same area as Connecticut. Annually it ranks in the top three fishing ports in the ...

Also discussed on the first day of ComFish was opioid usage among commercial fishermen. The conversation was held by Denise ...