Fisheries

Seiners caught about 100,000 chum salmon. During the same time last year, about 700,000 were caught.

If you’ve noticed a lot of empty slips in Sitka harbors today, there’s a reason for that: Tuesday was the first day of the summer troll opening for king salmon — and Southeast fishermen are looking at a record high target harvest.

NOAA is opening public comment on a plan to relax Steller sea lion protections and allow more commercial fishing in the western Aleutian Islands.

Fishing restrictions this year have hit many families hard.

The first returns of hatchery chum salmon are showing up in fishing nets in Southeast Alaska this month.

A hatchery in the Southeast community of Kake is closing its doors this month and has released its final chum, pink and coho salmon.