Commercial fishing jobs in Alaska are down for the fifth year in a row. That's according to new economic data from the state ...

The number of commercial fishing jobs in Alaska plunged to a new low last year as the industry struggles with disrupted ...

The state report found that the commercial fishing sector lost 443 jobs in 2024, a 7.6 percent drop from 2023. On average, ...

The number of seafood harvesters in Alaska’s famed industry has set a new record low, surpassing last year’s record low, ...

Kodiak’s fishing jobs took a big hit last year, losing more than 8% of its seafood harvesting jobs, as salmon employment plunged to record lows.

Gulls flock to the Trident Seafood plant in Kodiak on Oct. 3, 2022. Job and wage data indicates that seafood processors faced difficulties in finding enough workers in 2023. (Photo by Yereth ...

Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and other coastal senators have proposed legislation to exempt seafood processing companies from a cap on the number of international workers they can hire through the ...

The Pacific Salmon Commission held a meeting in Sitka last month, where commissioners from Canada and the United States ...

'Seafood processing, and by extension fishing, saw a lot of disruptions throughout the industry, so we had a lot of losses' -- Karinne Wiebold, Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development ...

The state has kept detailed statistics since 2001, and the number of people fishing and processing fish hasn't ever been so ...

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 in an ...