Seine fishermen in Sitka-area District 13 broke a record last week by harvesting roughly 1.1 million pink salmon in one day. The single-day Aug. 6 seine harvest topped the previous record of 975,000 pinks harvested from District 13 in one day in...

Scores of Southeast troll fishermen are in Sitka this month weaving at 1.5 knots through the rocks and reefs of Eastern Channel, and dragging dozens of hooks with purple lures made to catch chum salmon.  With processors paying troll...

For the third year running, Redoubt Lake is seeing record-breaking returns of sockeye salmon, as management of the meromictic lake and its important sockeye salmon harvest site is changing. The new U.S. Forest Service subsistence dashboard states...

Each Southeast Alaska commercial troller can catch and keep up to 17 chinook salmon during the second retention period of the summer season that began today. The “limited harvest fishery” for kings is taking place as trolling for coho and chum...

A federal grand jury in Juneau returned an indictment last month charging five experienced commercial fishermen with conspiring to illegally harvest halibut near Yakutat between 2019 and 2023, the U.S. Attorney's Office for Alaska announced...

King salmon fishing is back on for nonresident sport anglers in Southeast Alaska, effective Monday, Aug. 4, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced. Chinook retention has been closed since July 7 for nonresidents fishing in...

The annual drive for donations of locally caught seafood for school lunches will launch next week as the Fish to Schools program gets underway for the coming school year. A cooperative nonprofit program, Fish to Schools is organized by the Sitka...

Purse seine fishermen are anticipating the peak of the salmon season as the Alaska Department of Fish and Game expands seine fishing opportunities across Southeast this month. It’s still too early to tell how Sitka-area runs of pink and chum...

While cleaning up after a successful fishing trip near Biroka Island Sunday morning, Vern Culp and Brian Neal felt their 22-foot boat being lifted from underneath. Neal thought they had hit some rocks until he looked over the side and saw a giant...

Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association personnel have recovered about 1,100 empty, plastic fish feed bags from the waters of Chatham Strait since learning that a large quantity of bags, used to feed juvenile salmon at NSRAA’s Hidden...

Southeast Alaska crabbers are cutting loose from the docks ahead of the 2025/26 commercial Dungeness crab fishery opening this weekend. Waters throughout the region will open to the summer Dungeness fishery at 8 a.m. Sunday, the Alaska Department...

Commercial pot shrimp fishing is set to close at 4 p.m. today off the west coast of Baranof and Chichagof Islands in fishery Sections 13-A/B, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced. The pot shrimp fishery opened across Southeast on May...

Caleb Gray wasn’t sure his 34-pound king caught the first weekend of the derby would stay at the top of the leader board through the final weekend, for the 9-year-old to claim first prize in the 70th Sitka Salmon Derby. But he was there -...

Anglers in the 70th annual Sitka Salmon Derby have two days left to probe the sound in hopes of catching the heaviest king salmon. Nine-year-old Caleb Gray is leading the fleet with a 34-pound king salmon that he caught during the first,...

The fleet may be graying in Alaska’s commercial fishing industry, but the Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association’s Crew Training Program has no shortage of greenhorns to help combat it.  Going into its 10th year of operation, the CTP has...

After the first three days of fishing in the 70th annual Sitka Salmon Derby, Caleb Gray stands at the top of the leader board, with a 34-pound king salmon. The 9-year-old Sitka youth won the Sitka Sportsman’s Association annual event two years...

The annual Sitka Salmon Derby kicks off Saturday and will draw local angers of all ages to pursue king salmon in the waters around town in search of prizes or fame, but foul weather is in the offing, with rain and wind expected through the holiday...

Alaska’s commercial herring fisheries are under evaluation for a Responsible Fishery Management eco-certification that could boost sales and harvest of herring, says the state-run Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute that commissioned the RFM...

The loss of federal funding, caused by mass firings at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has put lifesaving safety classes for commercial fishermen in jeopardy, with possibly serious consequences for the wellbeing of fishermen, and...