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The statewide 2026 commercial salmon forecast is projected to total 135.5 million fish, a 36% decline from the 194.8 million landed in 2025. Shutterstock photo.

Alaska commercial sockeye salmon harvest climbs

Margaret Bauman

Federal disaster relief funding totaling $123.6 million will be distributed among fisheries in Alaska, Oregon, California, and Washington's Squaxin Island Tribe to help fishing communities recover from a series of commercial fishery collapses between 2019 and 2023. Shutterstock photo.

Commerce Department releases $123.6 million in fishery disaster aid

NF Staff

Fishery biologists Chris Anderson, Chris Long, and KC Dill prepare to release a satellite-tagged Pacific cod. Before release, the fish is lowered to depth to aid survival. NOAA Fisheries photo.

Scientists tag Pacific cod to track climate shifts in the Bering Sea

NF Staff

The 2026 Bristol Bay sockeye salmon season is beginning to take shape, with early catches concentrated in the Ugashik District. Photo courtesy of theautumnonempire

Bristol Bay sockeye run gaining momentum

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Caitlin Townsend and her father out lobstering. Photo courtesy of the Townsend family

A foot on deck and a voice for the fleet

Carli Clancy

Alaska’s newly built crab hatchery is inside the Trident Seafoods plant on St. Paul Island in the Bering Sea. Shiona Melovidov photo.

Partners hatch a project to return Alaska king crab stock to health

Wesley Loy

Spawning chum salmon in the Chehalis River, Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Hilborn: respect indigenous, western fisheries knowledge

Margaret Bauman

Fall-run Chinook salmon migrate to California's Central Valley rivers to spawn. Photo by Miles Daniels

NOAA says $123 million coming for six ‘fishery resource disasters’

NF Staff

By June 17, one of two Costco Warehouses in Anchorage had sold over 185 pounds of Copper River sockeye salmon for $14.99 a pound. Margaret Bauman photo.

Copper River sockeyes selling out

Margaret Bauman

Red king crab. NOAA photo.

North Pacific council to study new options to reduce bottom trawling

Margaret Bauman

Alaska's five Pacific salmon species are all forecast to see lower harvests in 2026, with global sockeye, keta, and pink supplies also expected to decline significantly from recent averages. Shutterstock photo.

Report forecasts 15% drop in global salmon harvest

Margaret Bauman