Near the end of its two-week meeting on Sunday, the Alaska Board of Fisheries considered a proposal to close off a small bay ...

The maximum harvest level for Sitka’s commercial herring fishery has been reduced, despite recent increases in the biomass.

During the 11th day of the Alaska Board of Fisheries’ 13-day Southeast Alaska finfish and shellfish regulatory meeting in Ketchikan on Friday, the seven-member Board held a town-hall-style committee s ...