Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancestral seal hunting happened at the edge of the Sít Tlein (Hubbard) glacier. Emily Kearney ...

In Scotland scientists were looking into ways to cut down the time spent separating fish aboard fishing boats. Using an underwater camera, they saw that haddock rose to the top of the trawl, whiting ...

The body of a man missing since a boat capsized in the Bering Sea near Mekoryuk in late May has been found, Alaska State Troopers said. Samuel Shavings, 72, and two other men were out seal hunting in ...

A ringed seal (Pusa hispida) peaks its head above water in the Laptev Sea near Bolshoy Begichev Island, Russia. ( Кирилл Уютнов/Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News) (CN) — Conservation protections ...

You value independent local news, so become a sustainer today to power our newsroom. Listen 3:22 How an Indigenous tradition that started with catching seals has evolved in Alaska Traditionally, ...

Five hundred years ago, in a mountain-rimmed ocean fjord in southeast Alaska, Tlingit hunters armed with bone-tipped harpoons eased their canoes through chunks of floating ice, stalking seals near Sít ...

Also known as “seal parties,” the tradition brings women together to mark first catches and — more recently — other achievements as well. In some Alaska villages, hunting and fishing season starts ...