The word “confusion” came up a lot in a meeting with state and federal managers to describe the state’s June 28 Kuskokwim River opening.

Restaurants are welcoming more diners as COVID-19 restrictions relax, driving greater demand for salmon.

Yukon River subsistence fishing will be closed until the return size is clearer.

It would have been the first king salmon derby in Ketchikan since 2017.

Sitka Tribe of Alaska filed suit against Fish and Game in 2018 over the department’s management of the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery.

Video footage indicates that as many as 60 people could have been exposed at the Norwegian Rat that night.

A group of Bering Sea crabbers say they want more time to catch their quota before the state shuts down their season next week.

The Alaska Department of Fish & Game projects a biomass of 236,700 tons — the highest forecast since 1993, when the state started to use its current forecasting method.

The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute is sending out two surveys —one for fishermen and one for processors — about the effects of the pandemic.

Clean-up efforts concluded on Wednesday after a sunken fishing vessel spilled diesel fuel in Sitka Sound.