National Fisherman

Alaska

Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has promised to meet with Alaska commercial fishing industry leaders to discuss trade threats and show industry support. Photo courtesy of Ken Schulze / Shutterstock

Russia has declared war on Alaska seafood

Carli Stewart

Shutterstock photo.

Too early to tell if Copper River sockeye run will fall short of forecast

Margaret Bauman

Bering Sea pollock come aboard a trawler. NMFS video image.

NMFS reports 24 percent cut in Alaska staffing

NF Staff

Nicole Baker, founder of Net Your Problem, on Egg Island in Alaska's Prince William Sound, with Nelly Hand of Drifters Fish, a Cordova, Alaska, seafood harvester and processor. The two-day plastics cleanup effort collected 5,500 pounds of debris for recycling. Photo courtesy of Drifters Fish.

Washed ashore and reborn: Fishing gear and plastics get new life

Margaret Bauman

Margaret Bauman photo.

Copper River harvest appears to be tracking below forecast

Margaret Bauman

Jamie O'Connor, deputy executive director of AMCC. Photo courtesy of AMCC

Stronger federal support for AK fisheries

NF Staff

Seward, AK harbor in southern Alaska, set on an inlet on the Kenai Peninsula. Photo courtesy of Chansak Joe / Shutterstock

Resilient in the face of change: Alaska's waterfronts

Carli Stewart

Photo courtesy of Net Your Problem / Jasmine Butler

Catcher-processor fleet launches first net recycling day

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In 2024,, Lisa, Brian Gabriel, and others experimented with beach seining to harvest sockeye salmon without harming Chinooks. Some of the crew are learning to haul the nets on a beach in Upper Cook Inlet. Photo by Brian Gabriel

Cook Inlet setnetters told to wait for 2027

Paul Molyneaux

A Gillnet boat in Cordova, Alaska. Coleman Peebles photo - Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.0.

Copper River opener sockeye harvest well below forecast

Margaret Bauman

David Grimes, an artist in Cordova, Alaska, and participant in the Arts for Nature project focused on protecting wild salmon habitat and the Prince William Sound/Copper River Delta bioregion. Photo by Paul Scannell.

International artists project advocates for wild salmon habitat

Margaret Bauman