The bill would require designated seats on the seven-member board to represent commercial, sport and subsistence sectors, along with one representing scientists ...

Around 70 million pounds of fish are offloaded from fishing boats here every year. Over the past ten years, sport fishermen have swarmed to Sitka (and other southeast Alaska communities), spawning ...

Some parts of the state have weathered the herring market downturn, like around Sitka ... for United Fishermen of Alaska, which promotes the state’s commercial fishing industry.

Membership on the Alaska ... fishing sectors, under a bill pending in the Legislature. The measure, House Bill 125, would require that the board have designated seats to represent commercial ...