The National Weather Service is short-handed in Alaska, the senator said. She asked Commerce Secretary Lutnick to ensure ...

Citing a difficult global market, the largest seafood company in the U.S. announced this week that it’s looking to sell several of its facilities in Alaska. Seattle-based Trident Seafoods will ...

Bills intended to give incremental relief to fishers passed this session, while more substantive bills will be considered ...

Job and wage data indicates that seafood processors faced difficulties in finding enough workers in 2023. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) Alaska seafood processors hired fewer people in 2023 ...

The draft was reviewed at a two-day hearing in Anchorage Thursday and Friday of the Joint Legislative Task Force Evaluating ...

We discuss the challenges and potential relief for Alaska’s struggling seafood industry. A convergence of factors are challenging Alaska fisheries. Climate change, fluctuations in market demand ...

Last summer, an unsettling quiet cloaked the isolated Southwest Alaska community of King Cove as the town’s economic engine — a sprawling seafood processing plant — sat shuttered.

Employment for people harvesting seafood dropped by about a quarter from 2015 to 2022, according to the analysis, published in the November issue of Alaska Economic Trends, the department’s ...

A passionate debate within the Alaska Legislature about tribal sovereignty and a task force to course-correct the state’s seafood industry economic and ecological collapse resulted in last ...

Alaska seafood processors hired fewer people in 2023 but paid them more and relied more on nonresidents to fill the jobs, a state analysis shows. The employment trends are what would be expected ...

Alaska lawmakers from fishing-dependent communities say they have ideas for ways to rescue the state’s beleaguered seafood industry, with a series of bills likely to follow. Members of a ...