Nathaniel Herz, Northern Journal

Hilcorp has signed oil leases with Doyon, the Indigenous-owned corporation for Interior Alaska. But there’s intense opposition from local tribes.

A new bycatch fight has erupted over a small pollock fishery not far from urban Alaska, in the waters of Prince William Sound, east of Anchorage.

Northern Journal last week published a story on how Kodiak-based pollock trawlers unintentionally caught 2,000 king salmon — forcing the closure of a major Gulf of Alaska fishery. Afterward, a number of readers responded with similar questions: What happened to those salmon? Were they sold? Donated? Thrown back into the water? The short answer, according to a…

An array of businesses, fishing companies and investors are objecting to a pending proposal to sell the assets of a struggling Alaska seafood company to Rodger May.

AIDEA has long used outside attorneys. What’s new is selecting firms in advance, which the agency’s leader says allows work to happen more quickly than going through the state’s procurement process each time an issue comes up.

Washington’s Democratic governor had advanced an ally of tribes and conservation groups for appointment to the federal commission that manages lucrative fisheries off the Alaska coast, but the U.S. commerce secretary instead reappointed an official from a Seattle-based trawl company.