The F/V Arctic Sea ran aground on the north side of St. George Island early Monday, Coast Guard officials said.

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 ...

Dec 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard said on Monday that it had suspended its search for five people after their commercial fishing boat capsized in Alaska. The Coast Guard received a mayday call ...

Dec. 3—The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday suspended the search for survivors from a Sitka-based commercial fishing boat that capsized early Sunday morning with five people aboard. The Coast Guard said the ...

Nick Katelnikoff learned to fish from his father, and he says his first paycheck as a fisherman came when he turned 8 years old. Now 76, pictured aboard his boat, the MZ L, he’s the last skipper ...

Skippers in Prince William Sound and Kodiak say this year’s harvest is one of the worst they’ve seen. Expectations were low this year for the pink salmon runs that power Prince William Sound’s ...

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 ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Salmon fishing season is in full swing, and so is the five ...

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 ...

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 ...