For two decades, this annual armed forces fishing tournament has introduced junior enlisted military members to Alaska ...

May 30—The U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday that the search had been suspended for four people missing from a Sitka fishing boat in what could be the deadliest incident in Alaska's charter fishing ...

FILE - Homes in downtown overlook the harbor, in Sitka, Alaska, on March 26, 2008. Sitka is the home port for a charter fishing boat that sank in late May 2023 in nearby waters killing three and ...

Party fishing is the practice wherein anglers on a boat pool their catch to avoid bag limits. In Alaska, where the limit for halibut is two fish per day, an angler fishing with five friends might ...

Prior to about a week ago, you would've never caught me dead climbing aboard an offshore fishing boat headed out to the middle of the ocean to rock back and forth for hours in hopes of catching a fish ...

Federal rules taking effect in February are expected to keep a third of the halibut sport charters working out of Homer, Seward and Valdez stuck in harbor this year. To curtail a charter fleet it ...

SITKA, AlaskaSITKA, Alaska — A fishing charter boat found partially submerged off an island in southeast Alaska last May likely capsized after its well deck flooded in rough seas, according to the U.S ...

KETCHIKAN, Alaska -- Southeast Alaska fishing charter operators may file a legal challenge to a new federal rule that would limit their clients' catch to one halibut a day. The rule kicks in June 5.

SITKA, Alaska -- The Coast Guard is searching for four missing people after a luxury charter fishing boat sank off the coast of Alaska, ABC News reported. Rescuers located one deceased individual near ...