The number of people working in Alaska’s famed seafood industry has set a new record low, surpassing last year’s record low, ...

The number of commercial fishing jobs in Alaska plunged to a new low last year as the industry struggles with disrupted ...

Kodiak’s fishing jobs took a big hit last year, losing more than 8% of its seafood harvesting jobs, as salmon employment ...

Alaska fish-harvesting employment declined in 2022, a continuing yearslong slide caused by a variety of factors, according to an analysis by the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development.

Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and other coastal senators have proposed legislation to exempt seafood processing companies from a cap on the number of international workers they can hire through the ...

'Seafood processing, and by extension fishing, saw a lot of disruptions throughout the industry, so we had a lot of losses' -- Karinne Wiebold, Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development ...

The Pacific Salmon Commission held a meeting in Sitka last month, where commissioners from Canada and the United States ...

Boats offload to Kodiak’s myriad of shoreside processing plants. (Brian Venua/KMXT) Alaska waters produce the most seafood in the country, and many of the state’s coastal communities depend on ...