The boat is part of a pilot program based in Sitka to address high fuel costs for the fishing fleet and maybe make fishing a little bit greener.
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The Fight for the Last Wild Salmon

In Alaska, the last stronghold for wild salmon, Native tribes and conservationists are working to save the fish from both ...
Alaska commercial fishing is notoriously dangerous, yet deckhands can earn up to $50,000 in just a few months on the sea. Garbage collectors earn modest salaries nationally, but in big cities like San ...
Caught between survival in the North Pacific and a dream in Mexico, a fisherman works his way toward freedom under sail. The ...
Lacking the usual amount of data to guide them, federal fishery managers relied on last year’s reports to set the coming year’s harvests for the nation’s top-volume commercial fish species: Alaska ...
Hunters and anglers treasure Alaska's vast outdoors for its beauty and bounty but many fear for the future of the state's ...
ABS has completed a four-year effort to develop a training module to enhance safety training in the commercial fishing ...
Rather than propping up a foreign mining corporation, Alaska should look after the businesses that already anchor Bristol Bay ...
NOAA cuts, economic headwinds and invasive species pose problems, but there was some recovery in crab stocks and salmon ...
These totals come as reports have indicated Pacific halibut spawning biomass has dropped to its lowest levels in 40 years.
Jim Johnson, president and CEO of Glacier Fish Company, was unanimously elected as GAPP’s new chairman of the board ...
EUGENE, Ore. (CN) — A federal judge on Monday found the indefinite removal of a U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopter from the ...