For the few short weeks of the fishing season, fishing crews can become like family. And whether commercial or subsistence, many crews are family. And those families are passing on fishing wisdom to ...
I was taken out to our set net site to experience the work of fishing long before I was old enough to officially join my ...
School is winding down, but for Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop teacher Roger Rogotzke, summer brings another gig — commercial fishing. Rogotzke has been making the trip to Bristol Bay to catch wild Alaskan ...
Fourteen vessels had landed about 680,000 pounds of Bristol Bay king crab as of Wednesday, Oct. 23. 2024. The average weight is 6.84 pounds, and the catch rate is 35 legal males per pot. Both of those ...
Workers load fish into one of the three spiral freezers on board the Hannah. (Casey Chandler/KDLG) A floating fish processor serving the Bristol Bay fishing fleet is fully operational again, in the ...