Jun. 8—More than 100 salmon trollers packed a Sitka meeting Wednesday night with sharp questions about the future of an iconic Southeast Alaska fishery, facing what could be an unprecedented full ...

Over 20 years ago, I was hired to enlist support from southeast Alaska communities for removal of the four Lower Snake River Dams. This was my introduction to southeast Alaska’s salmon troll fishermen ...

More than 100 salmon trollers packed a Sitka meeting Wednesday night with sharp questions about the future of an iconic Southeast Alaska fishery, facing what could be an unprecedented full shutdown of ...

NOAA Fisheries Alaska Region administrator Jon Kurland (left) speaks to Southeast Alaska trollers during a June 7, 2023 meeting of the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council in Sitka. (Robert ...

Over 20 years ago, I was hired to enlist support from Southeast Alaska communities for removal of the four Lower Snake River Dams. This was my introduction to Southeast Alaska’s salmon troll fishermen ...

A panel of federal judges will hear oral arguments on Thursday, in an appeal of a lower court ruling that threatened to halt the Southeast troll fishery for king salmon. The Alaska Trollers ...

Wild Fish Conservancy has filed a lawsuit that could effectively end commercial king salmon trolling in southeast Alaska. The conservation group claimed Alaska’s salmon harvesting threatens endangered ...

Folks following the Wild Fish Conservancy lawsuit that seeks to shut down commercial king salmon fishing in Southeast Alaska may not be aware of the defendants (NOAA, State of Alaska, Alaska Trollers ...

FILE - A troller fishes in Sitka Sound, Alaska on February 2, 2021. A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, halted a lower court ruling that would have shut down southeast Alaska's chinook ...

To increase food available to orcas, a federal judge has overturned the U.S. government’s authorization of winter and summer chinook salmon troll fishing along Alaska’s southern coast. The judge has ...

In the most-read story of last week, Chinook salmon trollers in Southeast Alaska were dealt a win by the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a multi-year lawsuit brought by the environmental group ...

SAN FRANCISCO — As my fishing rod doubled over with the weight of a heavy fish on, I grabbed it out of the rod holder, set the hook and began reeling in the line. “Keep reeling, keep reeling. It’s a ...