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 ...

ROUND LAKE BEACH, Ill. (WLS) -- A man who went to high school in north suburban Round Lake Beach has died while working on a fishing boat in Alaska. Authorities said 21-year-old Corwin Wheeler became ...

Butch Laiti is president of the Douglas Indian Association, a tribal government in Juneau. The association has purchased a fishing boat and wants to buy a commercial fishing permit for its members to ...

I had a rare day to myself to fish from shore in Alaska — and this was the only spot I had time to try! Even with limited time, it’s clear that Alaska’s coastline is full of untapped fishing potential ...

Facing a second year of restricted fishing, some setnetters on the east side of Cook Inlet, in the US state of Alaska, are experimenting with purse seine gear as a workaround to salvage their season ...

Officials battled rough conditions Monday as they scoured the cold waters near Alaska in search of multiple people missing after a fishing boat capsized, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The Coast Guard ...

New research ranks Alaska, Florida, Delaware, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota as the top states for going fishing in the United States. Alaska is the best state to go fishing, followed by Florida ...

Joe Upton, the well-known Washington-based author of several previous books built around his 33 years of commercial fishing in Alaska (“Alaska Blues,” “Journeys Through the Inside Passage,” “Bering ...

This story was produced as part of the Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. Fellowship and the Public Media Accountability Initiative, which supports investigative reporting at local media outlets around ...