Seiners scooped up sets of maturing herring on Saturday and Sunday as the Alaska Department of Fish and Game opened this year’s commercial sac roe herring fishery in waters off the east shore of ...

The state will share harvest data from the Sitka Sound Sac Roe herring fishery after all. That’s after participating ...

I live in the town of Sitka, which is on the outer coast of Baranof Island in southeast Alaska. Unlike the Tlingit and Haida people, I am not Native here. But since I first set foot in Sitka about ...

The bill would require designated seats on the seven-member board to represent commercial, sport and subsistence sectors, ...

Dec. 1 (UPI) --Five people are missing after a fishing boat capsized near the tiny southeast Alaskan village of Couverden Point, the U.S. Coast Guard said Sunday. The 50-foot fishing boat Wind ...

Federal prosecutors are recommending that an Alaska fisher serve six months in prison, pay a $25,000 fine and be banned from commercial fishing for a year after lying about fishing catches and ...

Kiley Prinz, with the Alaska Marine Safety Education Association based in Sitka, spoke with KSTK's Colette Czarnecki about ...

A fishing boat with one person believed to be aboard remains lost in Southeast Alaska waters near Ketchikan, a week after it was last heard from. The Feb. 20 final radio call from the 43-foot ...