But one result is clear: The policy has dragged down the economies of many Indigenous villages along the Gulf of Alaska. Places that once called themselves “fishing towns” have been hollowed ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Several Alaska Native Tribal Governments ... have voiced strong opposition to the project and any commercial trawl fishing in the region. The Native Village of Savoonga, Native ...

he shared hunting and fishing stories. Kazden hung on every word. Dan told us how he marked the snowmachine trails in the fall, from Kotzebue to neighboring villages. I’d heard stories of men who do ...

A permitting system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more profitable. But over the last 50 years, it has hollowed out many ...

Now 76, pictured aboard his boat, the MZ L, he’s the last skipper running a commercial fishing vessel from his home village of Ouzinkie, on an island just north of Kodiak. (Photo by Nathaniel ...