Commercial Fishing

The Alaska Board of Fisheries is expected to vote Wednesday on a slew of measures that locals fear could effectively shut down Sand Point’s fishing industry.

Subsistence communities in Western Alaska ask for strict limits on the Bering Sea trawl fishery.

The long-anticipated decision over pollock trawlers’ chum bycatch has seafood towns like Unalaska worried.

NOAA scientists emphasized that last year’s projections were reliable enough to guide 2026 limits.

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council voted to keep next season’s catch limits at just under 1.4 million metric tons.

New data shows the industry has lost more than a third of harvesting jobs over the past decade.

It took Alaska a year or so longer to get back to full employment levels than it did for the nation as a whole.

Meanwhile, Fish and Game is putting more restrictions on the fishery.

Delayed federal funding has pushed the North Pacific Fishery Management Council to cancel travel and shift its October meeting online, raising concerns about long-term oversight.

National Maritime Day is May 22. It’s a small but important holiday recognizing the hard work that goes into a career at sea. Alaska is home to thousands of mariners, including fishermen, navigators, maintenance specialists and law enforcement.