Alaska fish-harvesting employment declined in 2022, a continuing yearslong slide caused by a variety of factors, according to an analysis by the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
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 ...
'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 ...
ANCHORAGE -- Lindsey Bloom is so enthusiastic about her budding career as a commercial fisherman that she had the state's "Made in Alaska" emblem and two leaping sockeye salmon tattooed on the small ...