For two decades, this annual armed forces fishing tournament has introduced junior enlisted military members to Alaska ...

May 30—The U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday that the search had been suspended for four people missing from a Sitka fishing boat in what could be the deadliest incident in Alaska's charter fishing ...

Prior to about a week ago, you would've never caught me dead climbing aboard an offshore fishing boat headed out to the middle of the ocean to rock back and forth for hours in hopes of catching a fish ...

Party fishing is the practice wherein anglers on a boat pool their catch to avoid bag limits. In Alaska, where the limit for halibut is two fish per day, an angler fishing with five friends might ...

KETCHIKAN, Alaska -- Southeast Alaska fishing charter operators may file a legal challenge to a new federal rule that would limit their clients' catch to one halibut a day. The rule kicks in June 5.

By federal order, hundreds of Alaska halibut charter businesses will be forced to close their doors Feb. 1. Most of them are small, mom-and-pop operations. Exactly how many will fall victim to a U.S.

FILE - This January 2019 photo shows Sitka Channel in Sitka, Alaska, the home port for a charter fishing boat that sank in nearby waters killing three and leaving two lost at sea in late May 2023. The ...