Herring boats, Unalakleet harbor, Norton Sound. August 1991. Even as safety has improved vastly in the Alaska fishing industry overall, harvesters who operate from small, open skiffs continue to face ...

Traditionally, throughout many Indigenous coastal communities in Western Alaska, when a young family member hunts their first seal of the season, their family hosts a party to distribute that fresh ...

The crash of salmon stocks in Western Alaska’s Kuskokwim River has sparked a bitter court fight between the federal and state governments, and now Alaska Native leaders are calling for congressional ...

Alaska doesn’t have a sport fishery for bass – and it’s likely that there are no bass there at all – which is exactly why every hard-core, self-described hawging freak needs to get there. Look, you ...

Lucy Weedman gives testimony on the Mulchatna caribou herd at AFN on Friday, October 20, 2023. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Climate change poses threats to subsistence practices across Alaska, ...

HOMER — On a recent afternoon, Emma Privat and Claire Neaton — commercial fishermen, Alaska entrepreneurs and wild seafood influencers known as the Salmon Sisters — were down in Homer Harbor, loading ...