NOAA Fisheries

A $132 million package of federal relief funds is heading to Alaska fishermen and researchers to offset what’s known as fishing disasters in the state.

Four vessels are heading into the Gulf of Alaska this winter to study the impacts of climate change on Pacific salmon.The expedition is not the first…

Alaska has an ambitious goal — turn its growing mariculture business into a $100 million industry by 2040.It has a long way to go. But federal and state…

A large swath of Upper Cook Inlet will officially be closed to commercial salmon fishing next summer.The feds released a final rule this week adopting the…

When a heat wave swept through the northeast Pacific ocean between 2014 and 2016, it changed the marine makeup of the Gulf of Alaska. The warm water…

A federal permit allowing Hilcorp to drill in Cook Inlet does not account for the harm vessel noise could pose to endangered belugas there, according to a…

The beluga population in Cook Inlet is not bouncing back and scientists are trying to figure out why.First, they need to know more about the population. A…

While Dutch Harbor, Kodiak and Bristol Bay net all the headlines for the volume and value of their yearly commercial seafood harvests, two fishing ports…