Forrest Bowers

Fish and Game lets tenders into Kodiak's herring B season with less than two weeks left

“is managed now with several seasonal components rather than just two”

Southeast Alaska sea cucumber dive fishery opens with a 1.4 million-pound cap

Southeast winter troll king season opens Oct. 11, with five inside areas closed

Southeast Alaska gillnetters caught less salmon this year but expect higher pay

Yakutat set gillnetters get another opening, but still can't keep king salmon

Copper River commercial salmon season closes Oct. 13 after weak sockeye and strong coho runs

Bristol Bay's 2026 sockeye run falls below 50 million for first time since 2014

Subsistence fishing reopens on the upper Yukon, village by village

Tanana subsistence and personal use fishing goes 24 hours

Southeast trollers got ten more days, and a smaller fleet to fish them with

Two Southeast geoduck beds stay closed until biomass recovers past 30% threshold

Southeast's shrimp season opens small as the harvest keeps shrinking

The Yukon's fall chum run could support a fishery, none has opened

Southeast king crab reopens for a second year after a long drought

Kamishak Bay pink and chum escapement runs preliminarily below goals

Southeast pink seining closes at 19.8 million fish; hatchery areas stay open

Southeast Alaska's king crab fishery will open, barely clearing the bar

Purse seining is finished for the year in Lower Cook Inlet

Norton Sound's commercial salmon season ends with the counting towers down

Kelp that washes up on Cook Inlet beaches can now be harvested and sold

Southeast's sea cucumber divers get a smaller catch this fall

Eshamy District stays closed as sockeye run behind target

A second Southeast area hits its lingcod limit in two weeks

Juneau-area gillnetters get another opener, but directed king fishing stays closed on low abundance

Gillnetters near Ketchikan and Haines get an extra day on the water

Sand Point fishermen get 61 hours on the water — in a fishery the rest of Alaska watches closely

A Petersburg-area drift gillnet fishery opens for about 40 hours

ADF&G closes Northern District set gillnet fishing for 12 hours Monday

Weak sockeye run tightens fishing at Saltery Creek, twice in two days

The state ordered Cook Inlet setnetters onto gear their permits don't allow

Cook Inlet drifters get 12 more hours as Kasilof sockeye double the goal

Frederick Sound chum stays below average as pink salmon rebound

Strong escapement at one weir is driving long Alaska Peninsula openings

Togiak sockeye escapement far below goal as fishing cuts loom

Southeast's Dungeness season closes early on a 25-year-low harvest

Sockeye keep the drift fleet fishing while the Kenai's kings stay closed

ADF&G extends Northwest Stepovak commercial salmon fishing 48 hours

Alaska closes District 4 subsistence fishing for fall chum and coho starting Wednesday

Kotzebue chum fishery opened Sunday, but only one buyer is registered to purchase fish

Southeast Alaska pink salmon counts fall far below average for fourth straight week

Togiak sockeye count far below expectations, fishing cuts likely next week

Yukon District 3 closes to fall chum and coho subsistence Saturday as treaty goals fall short

Copper River stays closed to commercial fishing as Chinook run tracks weak

Yukon Chinook count at Eagle stands at 1,633, a third of average; ADF&G launches telemetry study

Kuskokwim subsistence fishing reopens as salmon run strong

Bristol Bay is hauling in millions of sockeye — and it's still a down year

Too many young fish shut Sand Point's seiners out of the Shumagins

Yukon summer chum run tops 900,000 projection, opening subsistence windows across drainage

Yakutat's king run is coming up short, and the closures keep stacking up

Weak kings, strong chum: the Yukon's salmon rules split by the run