Fisheries Archives - Sharing Alaska

The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.

The U.S. government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done. But instead of preserving wild salmon, it propped up a failing system of hatcheries. Now, that system is falling apart.

Fisher poet publishes memoir about his years in Cook Inlet

Patrick Dixon wrote his first fishing poem when he was stranded on land after the Exxon-Valdez oil spill of 1989.

Metlakatla takes fishing rights dispute to federal appeals court

The Metlakatla Indian Community tribal government argues that a 1891 law gives its modern-day members unfettered rights to commercially fish around Ketchikan and Prince of Wales Island.

Petersburg’s tribal administrator takes job leading United Fishermen of Alaska

Tracy Welch grew up in Petersburg and has a background in commercial fishing, gillnetting and long-lining.

Haines gillnetting season bounces back with late surge of sockeye

Haines commercial fishermen saw a much better salmon season this year than last.

Pandemic economy contributes to record Southeast Dungeness crab prices

The size of the harvest was close to average, but the value of the crab was exceptional.

Alaska does have more men than women, but the odds aren’t that odd

There are more men than women here. But it’s not as big of a difference as you might think.

With chum runs crashing, Yukon River fish processor pivots to greenhouses

To keep up local employment, Kwik’pak Fisheries pivoted last summer when the chum runs started dropping. If workers couldn’t catch food, they could grow it.