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This story was produced as part of the Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. Fellowship. It’s the third in a series about access to commercial fisheries in rural Alaska; read Part One and Part Two.

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 ...

When salmon all but vanished from western Alaska in 2021, thousands of people in the region faced disaster. Rural families lost a critical food source. Commercial fisherfolk found themselves without a ...

The number of commercial fishing jobs in Alaska plunged to a new low last year as the industry struggles with disrupted fisheries, low prices, climate change and foreign competition that could get a ...

SEATTLE (CN) — A dispute between Alaska and the federal government over subsistence fishing on the Kuskokwim River has led a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to consider whether decades-old ...