At approximately 1 p.m. by a 4-2 vote the Alaska Board of Fisheries (BOF) adopted regulation that would better accomplish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A northern pike is seen swimming in this undated photo. (Photo provided by the National Park Service) A northern pike is seen ...

UPPER COOK INLET — On a recent morning high tide, Fred Thoerner and his daughter Melina eased a sturdy skiff called Warthog down Anchorage’s Ship Creek boat ramp and motored across Knik Arm to a beach ...

Alaska’s salmon season is largely over. However, commercial fishermen on the southern Kenai Peninsula are reflecting on a year marked by declining catches and higher costs. That includes first-year ...

Feisty at the end of the rod and light and mellow at the center of the plate, silver or coho salmon have always been a symbol of the end of summer in Alaska. But, in the last several years, as tourism ...

Facing a second year of restricted fishing, some setnetters on the east side of Cook Inlet, in the US state of Alaska, are experimenting with purse seine gear as a workaround to salvage their season ...

(Anchorage) - In order to stabilize the harvest of black and yelloweye rockfish in North Gulf Coast and Cook Inlet waters, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is reducing the pelagic rockfish bag ...

A federal judge has upheld the National Marine Fisheries Service’s new system to manage commercial harvests in federal waters of Cook Inlet, concluding that the agency has no obligation to extend that ...

But to the Department of Fish and Game, it is important to keep the Kenai Peninsula pike-free, as well as the western side of Cook Inlet. That is both to protect the region’s economically valuable ...