A permitting system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more ...

That priority, as applied to fishing ... the Alaska Federation of Natives, which took the federal government’s side. So did several other tribal groups, including the Association of Village ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...