(CN) — A federal judge sided with the U.S. government on Friday night to bar the state of Alaska from allowing subsistence gillnet fishing by all Alaskans on the Kuskokwim River. The order from U.S.

On August 20, 2025, in United States v. Alaska No. 24‑2251, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the federal government’s authority to create a rural subsistence fishing priority in navigable waters on federal ...

Residents of Nikolai, Alaska are seen building a fish wheel on the Kuskokwim River in June 2013 in this image from a National Park Service documentary. (Image by National Park Service/Charlotte Bodak) ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (CN) - Regulations reducing the commercial salmon season in Alaska did not deprive commercial salmon fishers of their property rights, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled. Commercial salmon ...

November 5, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on ALASKA: Cook Inlet Federal Waters Closed to Commercial Salmon Fishing KENAI, Alaska, November 5, 2021 (ENS) – The Biden Administration has closed the ...

KENAI, Alaska, November 5, 2021 (ENS) – The Biden Administration has closed the federal waters of Alaska’s Cook Inlet to commercial salmon fishing for the 2022 Cook Inlet commercial salmon fishing ...

Federal fish managers are proposing to relax rules designed to protect endangered leatherback sea turtles and allow some fishing off the West Coast under strict government supervision. The changes, ...