...pretty optimistic" is a phrase repeated by those spoken to in the industry. Chris Knight, executive director of United Southeast Alaska Gillnetters, is one of them. He expects better sockeye returns than last year. He added that chum returns were...

The International Pacific Halibut Commission has made preliminary staff recommendations of again lowering halibut quotas in 2011, but local fishing representatives see this as a dangerous move.

Douglas Island Pink and Chum pumped nearly $40 million into the Southeast economy in 2000, according to a new study commissioned by the Juneau-based private nonprofit fish hatchery.

The United Southeast Alaska Gillnetters (USAG) Association has grave concern about potential impacts on the Taku River fishery by development activities currently under consideration within the Taku watershed.

Douglas Island Pink and Chum pumped nearly $40 million into the Southeast economy in 2000, according to a new study commissioned by the Juneau-based private nonprofit fish hatchery.