Charter fishing crews in California harbors are preparing for recreational salmon fishing to reopen after a two-year shutdown ...

The Northern Journal also found most state lawmakers disinterested in the topic of changing the limited-entry system.

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

For the fewer than a hundred people that make up the entire population of Port Heiden, Alaska, fishing provides both a ...

One reason for the holdup: the thousands of commercial fishermen who already own permits entitling them to chase a share of the harvest. Salmon fishing boats operate outside of the Southeast ...

The Morro Bay Harbor Patrol is gearing up for a busy weekend as recreational salmon fishing is opening for the first time in ...

His green commercial fishing permit cards hung ... as others harvest the salmon once claimed as tribal property. Salmon fishing boats operate outside of Sitka. (Nathaniel Herz/Northern Journal ...

Anglers along the Northern California coast are poised and ready to hit their favorite ocean salmon spots this weekend.

Yet, the salmon season remains extremely restricted, and only applies to recreational fishing as commercial fishing boats are once again tied to the docks for the third consecutive year.

Lead carver Gordon Greenwald said the totem, or kootéeyaa, serves as a tribute to seiners, trollers, longliners, crabbers, ...

On my first time out as a commercial fisherman, my boat sank, my captain died, and I was left adrift and alone in the Pacific ...