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 ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — Morgan Robidou posed next to the bright aluminum hull of his prized new vessel, a 30-foot (9-meter) fishing boat that he could use to take friends, family or tourists out after salmon ...

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 ...

After Dr. Brone Lobichusky completed a fellowship in critical care at MD Anderson Cancer Cancer in Camden, Joseph Lobichusky felt it was time for a celebratory father-daughter fishing trip. In late ...

Before Jake Hannah, 22, left for his commercial fishing trip on Saturday night, he called his mother, who lives in his hometown of Coos Bay. “He said, ‘Hey mom, we’re getting ready to go out, I love ...

• How the tasks (such as gold mining, salmon fishing, railroading) aren't just hard, they're difficult in ways you never imagined, and being in Alaska makes them even tougher. • How the people devoted ...

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 ...