A northern pike is seen swimming in this undated photo. Northern pike are native to much of Alaska, but not to the Southcentral region south of the Alaska Range. Illegal introductions that started in ...

NOAA cuts, economic headwinds and invasive species pose problems, but there was some recovery in crab stocks and salmon ...

Feisty at the end of the rod and light and mellow at the center of the plate, silver or coho salmon have always been a symbol of the end of summer in Alaska. But, in the last several years, as tourism ...

A federal judge has upheld the National Marine Fisheries Service’s new system to manage commercial harvests in federal waters of Cook Inlet, concluding that the agency has no obligation to extend that ...

Amber Every (center) directs tractors pulling in a seine net holding sockeye salmon on a beach site on Thursday, July 18, 2024 near Kenai, Alaska. (Ashlyn O'Hara/KDLL) For the second year in a row, ...

After giving 'emergency authorization,' an Alaska state regulatory panel has decided against the permanent approval of dipnets, which are popular with sport fishers but rarely allowed for commercial ...

The closure is effective in Cook Inlet Area state waters through Dec. 31. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game recently ...

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 ...

While the deep-pocketed trawling industry rakes in millions, indigenous Alaskans, small-scale fisheries, and the state’s ecosystem are being left out to dry. This article was originally published in ...

In the fall of 2018, officials with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and their partners celebrated what they thought was a milestone: an end to the infestation of invasive northern pike in the ...