The boat is part of a pilot program based in Sitka to address high fuel costs for the fishing fleet and maybe make fishing a ...
Before Jake Hannah, 22, left for his commercial fishing trip on Saturday night, he called his mother, who lives in his hometown of Coos Bay. “He said, ‘Hey mom, we’re getting ready to go out, I love ...
HOUSTON — Alaska Wildland Adventures offers guided fishing trips on the Kenai River, where the sockeye salmon swimming upstream are a tourist’s ultimate prize. Peak salmon season starts around May and ...
POINT COUVERDEN, Alaska -- Five people are missing after a fishing boat capsized near Point Couverden, Alaska, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. A 50-foot fishing boat named Wind Walker sent out a ...
COOS BAY, Ore. (KPTV) - Five people are missing after a fishing boat capsized off the coast of Alaska, one of whom is 22-year-old Jake Hannah from Oregon. FOX 12 spoke to Jake’s mother, Carol, who is ...
Linda Behnken has been fishing out of Sitka, Alaska, for almost 40 years. Despite long hours, harsh weather conditions and the intrinsically difficult nature of pinpointing individual fish in the ...
This story was produced as part of the Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. Fellowship and the Public Media Accountability Initiative, which supports investigative reporting at local media outlets around ...
After walking away from a twenty-year guiding career in Alaska to write full-time, I’m getting the chance to return for one more week on the water. This is the 6th installment of a ten-part series ...
Fishing has dangers of its own, but this year the peril is invisible. "It's just how the earth is supposed to be," says third-generation commercial fishing boat captain Katherine Carscallen. She's ...
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The Fight for the Last Wild Salmon

In Alaska, the last stronghold for wild salmon, Native tribes and conservationists are working to save the fish from both ...
An eye-opening adventure through Alaska’s wild salmon supply chain, from nets to knives to the dinner table. On a lonely skiff in Bristol Bay, a five-pound salmon thrashes under my gloves as I wrestle ...