The CFEC maintains a database of active commercial fishing vessels in the state. It requires an $8 fee for boat owners to renew their commercial license.

As the commercial salmon season opens, some Alaska fishermen fear for their futures A year into the crisis in Alaska’s $6 billion commercial fishing industry, there are some signs of recovery ...

But today, that tradition is all but dead: Katelnikoff is the last skipper running a commercial fishing boat from Ouzinkie’s harbor.

Now, any boat that’s actively in use fishing and registered with the Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission and the U.S. Coast Guard will not have to also register with the DMV.

Keeping the boat going for the family “just seemed like the right thing to do.” She has witnessed a growing trend of women joining the fishing fleet of some 220 boats assigned to southeast Alaska.

Shaun Roche, a commercial fisherman and urchin diver from Santa Barbara, became the victim of a freak accident on a commercial fishing boat in the final hours of the sockeye salmon season in Bristol ...

The commercial fishing industry in Alaska is shrinking. Fewer young people are seeking a career in the industry due to high entry costs and climate change impacting fish stocks.

Jake Hannah, 22, was saving up for a fishing license to operate his own commercial fishing boat when the boat he was working on reportedly capsized Sunday.

A 21-year-old died after fishing gear dragged him into the water from a commercial salmon fishing boat, Alaska troopers say.

The last skipper in Ouzinkie: How Gulf of Alaska villages lost their Native fishing fleets A permitting system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry ...