Each year during sockeye salmon season, Alaska State Troopers come from around the state to patrol Bristol Bay. Spokesperson Austin McDaniel says it’s a busy time. “We have troopers in from Kodiak, ...

For the few short weeks of the fishing season, fishing crews can become like family. And whether commercial or subsistence, many crews are family. And those families are passing on fishing wisdom to ...

School is winding down, but for Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop teacher Roger Rogotzke, summer brings another gig — commercial fishing. Rogotzke has been making the trip to Bristol Bay to catch wild Alaskan ...

Fishermen in Bristol Bay are mourning one of their own who died Friday during the sockeye salmon gillnet fishery. Alaska State Troopers said in an online dispatch that Corwin Wheeler, 21, became ...

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 ...

Kirstyn Sterling spends every summer fishing for salmon at the mouth of Bristol Bay in Alaska with her husband and two little kids. They’re 9 and 5, but they’ve been going on fishing boats since ...

'We were receiving daily phone calls between Fish and Game and wildlife troopers, you know, multiple boats upwards of 50 at times fishing outside of the district' -- Aaron Tiernan, Alaska Department ...

Alaska’s commercial Bering Sea snow crab fishery kicked off its second season of the year with doubled catch limits – a ...

A Coast Guard 29-foot Response Boat-Small crew from Station Valdez, Alaska, conducts underway training near Valdez Aug. 18, 2018. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Station Valdez) The Coast Guard will offer ...

A Canadian mining company has hit another hurdle in its decades-long quest to extract gold and copper from sensitive headwaters above the world’s best salmon run. According to Salmon State, the ...

Dan Barr is 81 and a half years old. He fished Bristol Bay for just about half his life. “It’s been just such a great part of my life,” he said. “Every year I came home, it was like to live out ...