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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

SEATTLE (AP) — A ruling from a U.S. judge in Seattle could effectively shut down commercial king salmon trolling in Southeast Alaska — a valuable industry that supports some 1,500 fishermen — after a ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2014, file photo, endangered orcas swim in Puget Sound and in view of the Olympic Mountains just west of ...

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 ...

More than 100 salmon trollers packed a Sitka meeting Wednesday night with sharp questions about the future of an iconic Southeast Alaska fishery, facing what could be an unprecedented full shutdown of ...