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Now semi-retired Alaska economist Gunnar Knapp, the nation’s foremost authority on the economics of the Alaska fishing business, offered a blunt warning to the state’s salmon industry seven years ago.

A report from Alaska’s Department of Labor and Workforce Development shows the state’s commercial fishing workforce is continuing to shrink, with the number of fishers working in the sector reaching a ...

Commercial fishing jobs in Alaska are down for the fifth year in a row. That's according to new economic data from the state Department of Labor for the year 2024. Seafood harvesting jobs — which ...

Commercial fishing boats in Unalaska's Carl E. Moses Boat Harbor, Dec. 21, 2023. Commercial fishing jobs in Alaska are down for the fifth year in a row. That’s according to new economic data from the ...

A Bureau of Land Management employee in Colorado faces 18 charges after an investigation found she allegedly obtained resident fishing and hunting licenses and voted absentee in Alaska after moving ...

The diesel-powered fishing vessel Mirage is slated to be converted to hybrid diesel-electric propulsion. Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association photo. Southeast Alaska fishermen hoping to decarbonize ...

The secret to great fly fishing? According to Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard and Blue Ribbon Flies owner and founder Craig Mathews, it all comes down to simplicity. Speaking at Montana State ...

Alaska doesn’t have a sport fishery for bass – and it’s likely that there are no bass there at all – which is exactly why every hard-core, self-described hawging freak needs to get there. Look, you ...

Flooded roads, rescues, and evacuation notices have hit parts of the North Sound. by KOMO News Staff ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KOMO) — The Seattle Kraken hockey team and their sea troll mascot Buoy had quite ...

I first heard about arctic grayling from an episode of the television fishing show, Babe Winkelman's Good Fishing when I was a kid. Those gorgeous fish with the impossibly large dorsal fins seemed so ...

New research ranks Alaska, Florida, Delaware, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota as the top states for going fishing in the United States.