The king salmon troll fishery in Southeast Alaska is again scheduled to begin July 1 following a federal court decision Wednesday allowing for the season to go forward, reversing the slated closure of ...

A three-judge panel at 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a lower-court decision that could have temporarily halted troll fishing for salmon in Southeast Alaska. The appellate court ...

A federal judge in Washington state issued a ruling this week that threatens to shut down trolling for king salmon in Southeast Alaska this summer. The ruling comes in a lawsuit filed three years ago ...

NOAA Fisheries Alaska Region administrator Jon Kurland (left) speaks to Southeast Alaska trollers during a June 7, 2023 meeting of the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council in Sitka. (Robert ...

Wild Fish Conservancy has filed a lawsuit that could effectively end commercial king salmon trolling in southeast Alaska. The conservation group claimed Alaska’s salmon harvesting threatens endangered ...

A troller fishes off the Fairweather Range in northern southeast Alaska during 2015 summer salmon season. Tele Aadsen Courtesy to The Bellingham Herald While Alaska might be more than 1,000 miles away ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday halted a lower court ruling that would have shut down southeast Alaska’s chinook salmon troll fishery for the summer to protect endangered orca ...

Fisheries managers know that over 90 percent of the chinook caught in the Alaska troll fisheries come from the Pacific Northwest. Chinook will feed in the Gulf of Alaska for up to six years. We fish ...

A Washington state-based federal judge ordered a closure of Southwest Alaska’s troll fishery for the summer after voiding an environmental review that authorized the fishing activity. Judge Richard ...