Researchers in the Sitka Tribe of Alaska are trying to figure out how far subsistence herring eggs travel across the state — and beyond — each spring. The distribution network for herring eggs is ...

Jeff Jackson, Tlingit of the Kaach.ádi Clan from Kake, and Chris Pata, adopted into the Shangukeidí Clan of Juneau, prepare to set a tree into the waters of the Kasiana Islands in Sitka Sound in March ...

The practice of harvesting and trading herring eggs for subsistence is an old one in Southeast Alaska. But it’s one that’s threatened by commercial fishing activity and shortened harvesting periods, a ...

The tribal lawsuit over herring in Sitka Sound boiled down to one question this week: Does the management of the commercial seine fishery still allow residents a “reasonable opportunity” to harvest ...

Net positive? Paul Salomone, a fisheries management biologist, samples herring to help determine whether the fishery should be opened for the day. (Nathaniel Wilder) On a drizzly March afternoon in ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Natives concerned with overharvest of herring in waters off Sitka have taken their concerns to state court and the street. The Juneau Empire reports more than a dozen ...