Pacific Halibut caught in Cook Inlet in June 2010. (Creative Commons photo by Jlikes2Fish) Four fishing guides at a Petersburg lodge are being charged by the State of Alaska with over 50 violations.

My wife and I recently returned from a wonderful fishing trip in Southeast Alaska. She is a good sport. I kid her that we were going on an Alaska cruise only she has to drive the boat and there’d be ...

Dungeness crab fishing is back on for a full fall season that began Wednesday and extends through Nov. 30, although Alaska Department of Fish and Game harvest projections show that Southeast Alaska ...

PETERSBURG—At East Ohmer Creek, 22 miles south of Petersburg, Alaska, is a tree believed to be the largest left on Mitkof Island. Forest Service Fish Biologist Eric Castro said foresters estimate the ...

JUNEAU — A bill before the House Resources Committee would tighten residency requirements for sportfishing, hunting and trapping licenses. Community groups have raised concerns that a gap in state law ...

PETERSBURG, Alaska (AP) - The southeast Alaska town of Petersburg is working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on a dredging project to address a growing problem at one of its main harbors for ...

A portrait of Petersburg fisherman/rapper Lil Realist X. (Courtesy Lil Realist X) The small island community of Petersburg celebrated its ties to Norwegian culture, as well as the start to the fishing ...

Joe Upton, the well-known Washington-based author of several previous books built around his 33 years of commercial fishing in Alaska (“Alaska Blues,” “Journeys Through the Inside Passage,” “Bering ...

Alaska’s current subsistence fishing program can continue without changes, according to a Wednesday opinion by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The ruling allows the ...

Brian Varela has joined the Ventura County Star’s reporting staff to cover his native Oxnard area and the neighboring communities of Port Hueneme and Camarillo. Varela, 30, arrived by way of the ...