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Coast Guard suspends search for 5 fishermen aboard boat that capsized in Southeast Alaska

Dec. 3—The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday suspended the search for survivors from a Sitka-based commercial fishing boat that capsized early Sunday morning with five people aboard. The Coast Guard said the ...
Reuters

US Coast Guard calls off search for crew of capsized Alaska boat

Dec 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard said on Monday that it had suspended its search for five people after their commercial fishing boat capsized in Alaska. The Coast Guard received a mayday call ...
Alaska Public Media

The last skipper in Ouzinkie: How Gulf of Alaska villages lost their Native fishing fleets

Nick Katelnikoff learned to fish from his father, and he says his first paycheck as a fisherman came when he turned 8 years old. Now 76, pictured aboard his boat, the MZ L, he’s the last skipper ...
Juneau Empire

Coastal Alaskans see commercial fishing limits as a ‘crisis.’ Lawmakers don’t.

This story was produced as part of the Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. Fellowship and the Public Media Accountability Initiative, which supports investigative reporting at local media outlets around ...
The Spokesman-Review

Federal cuts endanger ‘critical’ safety programs for Alaska’s commercial fishermen

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Recent cuts to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services could end programs that are “critical” for commercial fishing safety in Alaska, according to the Alaska Marine ...