Unlike its unfortunate predecessor, Northline’s new processing barge won’t be at risk of autumn gales in Bristol Bay — because it won’t be there. At the end of the season the entire vessel, loaded ...

Harvey Kitka/Yansh ka owoo of the Sitka Kaagwaantaan [Wolf] Clan was a fisherman, as was his father, grandfather, and the many generations of his ancestors that came before. At the age of twelve, ...

SITKA, Alaska - After the rush during the first lunch session at Blatchley Middle School on a recent Monday, a student approached the counter and asked for a fish taco. He'd heard good buzz in the ...

Living smack-dab in the middle of the country has its virtues and its vices. Among the former? We’re nicer, they say. There’s less congestion. Our work ethic is strong. And then there are those ...

The seiner Infinite Grace pursing up during the third opening in the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery, on Wednesday, March 26, 2014. (Rachel Waldholz/KCAW) The Alaska Department of Fish and Game ...

Just as daffodils and groundhogs, cherry trees and robins announce the arrival of spring elsewhere, so the sac roe herring fishery spells the end of winter here in Sitka, Alaska. Seine boats with ...

JUNEAU — Authorities have recovered the body of the captain of a fishing charter boat that was found last month partially submerged in Southeast Alaska. The bodies of three of the four passengers ...