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 Safety Education ...

ANCHORAGE -- Lindsey Bloom is so enthusiastic about her budding career as a commercial fisherman that she had the state's "Made in Alaska" emblem and two leaping sockeye salmon tattooed on the small ...

Salmon fishing boats operate outside of the Southeast Alaska town of Sitka. Many coastal Alaskans say that a half-century of the state's limited-entry system for commercial fishing has resulted in an ...

For the organization that oversees commercial fisheries in federal waters off Alaska, the most significant impact of the ...

A 27-year-old crew member died last week after he was fatally injured while working aboard a commercial fishing vessel in the Aleutian Islands. Alaska State Troopers and the boat owner on Tuesday ...

A commercial Dungeness crab harvester from Alaska has pled guilty to stealing a rival fishers’ gear in a deal that will see him serve jail time, forfeit his fishing vessel, and pay restitution to the ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (WABI) - Commercial fishing for river herring is now a possibility on some Bangor area waters. Towns near Chemo Pond and Pushaw Lake will have a chance to submit a petition to the ...