A woman from Fairbanks, Alaska, has taken the lead in the annual Valdez Halibut Derby with a catch last Friday that tipped the scale at 144.2 pounds. Melissa Hurd told Alaska’s News Source that the ...

Skiffs sit on shore in the Southwest Alaska fishing town of King Cove. (Photo by James Brooks via Flickr under Creative Commons license) The fishing fleet in the Southwest Alaska town of King Cove ...

A federal grand jury in Alaska has indicted five commercial fishermen accused of orchestrating a long-running illegal halibut harvest scheme in Southeast Alaska. The case centers around the fishing ...

The site of Trident Seafood’s plant in Alaska. Credit: Trident Seafoods US seafood major Trident Seafoods has sold its processing plant in Petersburg, Alaska, to local peer E.C. Phillips & Son.

This story was supported by grants from the Pulitzer Center and the Alaska Center for Excellence in Journalism, in partnership with The Seattle Times and Northern Journal. Read the series here.