Over 20 years ago, I was hired to enlist support from Southeast Alaska communities for removal of the four Lower Snake River Dams. This was my introduction to Southeast Alaska’s salmon troll fishermen ...

Wild Fish Conservancy has filed a lawsuit that could effectively end commercial king salmon trolling in southeast Alaska. The conservation group claimed Alaska’s salmon harvesting threatens endangered ...

More than 100 salmon trollers packed a Sitka meeting Wednesday night with sharp questions about the future of an iconic Southeast Alaska fishery, facing what could be an unprecedented full shutdown of ...

A panel of federal judges will hear oral arguments on Thursday, in an appeal of a lower court ruling that threatened to halt the Southeast troll fishery for king salmon. The Alaska Trollers ...

To increase food available to orcas, a federal judge has overturned the U.S. government’s authorization of winter and summer chinook salmon troll fishing along Alaska’s southern coast. The judge has ...

Folks following the Wild Fish Conservancy lawsuit that seeks to shut down commercial king salmon fishing in Southeast Alaska may not be aware of the defendants (NOAA, State of Alaska, Alaska Trollers ...

The king salmon troll fishery in Southeast Alaska remains tangled in a net of legal proceedings that threatens the livelihood of this summer’s season. The season is scheduled to begin July 1. The U.S.

A federal judge in Washington state issued a ruling this week that threatens to shut down trolling for king salmon in Southeast Alaska this summer. The ruling comes in a lawsuit filed three years ago ...

Re: “Shutting down salmon trollers won’t save endangered orcas” [June 26, Opinion]: Tim Bristol’s Op-Ed decrying the application of the Endangered Species Act to try to prevent the extinction of ...

SAN FRANCISCO — As my fishing rod doubled over with the weight of a heavy fish on, I grabbed it out of the rod holder, set the hook and began reeling in the line. “Keep reeling, keep reeling. It’s a ...