A Kodiak fisherman has been sentenced to one year in jail for illegally shipping thousands of pounds of tanner crab infected with parasites from Alaska to Washington.

Bills intended to give incremental relief to fishers passed this session, while more substantive bills will be considered ...

Alaska’s Legislature adjourned last week without addressing an issue that many residents of coastal, Native villages see as ...

Fishing forms the backbone of the Kodiak Island economy. Many visitors may be familiar with some local fishing boats from Deadliest Catch. Some of them may dock at the nearby St. Herman’s Bay Harbor ...

he was one of a dozen or so skippers in Ouzinkie — a small Indigenous village on an island just off Kodiak’s coast. But today, that tradition is all but dead: Katelnikoff is the last skipper running a ...

Now 76, pictured aboard his boat, the MZ L, he’s the last skipper running a commercial fishing vessel from his home village of Ouzinkie, on an island just north of Kodiak. (Photo by Nathaniel ...

he was one of a dozen or so skippers in Ouzinkie — a small Indigenous village on an island just off Kodiak’s coast. But today, that tradition is all but dead: Katelnikoff is the last skipper running a ...

The boat, the Wind Walker, was a 50-foot seiner fishing vessel that maintained ... tug boat that is hauling a barge from Seattle to Kodiak Island, Alaska, KIRO 7 reported. He said he was 12 ...

Once it clears today, his tug will continue its journey to Kodiak Island. He said it’s hard ... bodies of the five crew members and the fishing boat itself have not been found.

KODIAK, Alaska – The Coast Guard responded ... a Coast Guard Station Ketchikan 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew towed the 34-foot fishing vessel Nata Ella from the southwest side of Bold Island to ...