The Limited Entry Act was created to manage open-access chaos. When Alaska gained statehood in 1959, there were no limits to who could fish. This led to ballooning participation, and by the early ...

Duncan Fields, 69; Wallace Fields, 64; Beth Fields, 66 and Leslie Fields, 67 – all of Kodiak – are charged with perjury and ...

Ash from the 1912 Novarupta eruption periodically hits the west side of Kodiak Island, Larsen Bay and Karluk, roughly 65 ...

Louise Stutes, R-Kodiak, has paused work on House Bill 117, which would allow setnet fishermen to pool their fish as a ...

Alaska's burgeoning mariculture industry is giving an industry update on the final day at ComFish. Kodiak Island's villages ...

The Fields family has been setnetting in Kodiak since 1961. But the state says their longstanding method of seasonal gifting ...

Longtime Kodiak setnetter and fisheries advocate Duncan Fields is being charged with multiple criminal counts related to ...

Alaska Wildlife Troopers have charged an Alaska fishing family with running a permit sharing scheme to bypass individual ...

State prosecutors have accused Kodiak fisher Duncan Fields and other members of his family of defrauding the state and fish ...

A Bristol Bay sockeye salmon "mob" gathers in August 2004 in the Wood River, which flows into the Nushagak River just north of Dillingham. (Photo by Thomas Quinn/, University of Washington) ...