Dec. 12—New regulations for federal waters surrounding Papahanaumo ­kuakea, one of the largest marine conservation areas in the world, were voted on last week by the Western Pacific Regional Fishery ...

A salmon swims upstream. (Image by Cock-Robin from Pixabay via Courthouse News) (CN) — A federal judge rebuffed a bid by the U.S. government to block Alaskans who aren’t “qualified subsistence users” ...

On August 20, 2025, in United States v. Alaska No. 24‑2251, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the federal government’s authority to create a rural subsistence fishing priority in navigable waters on federal ...

(CN) — A federal judge sided with the U.S. government on Friday night to bar the state of Alaska from allowing subsistence gillnet fishing by all Alaskans on the Kuskokwim River. The order from U.S.

HONOLULU — The remote Kīpahulu area on the southeast side of Maui will become the third Community-Based Subsistence Fishing (CBSFA) area in Hawai’i, following previous designations of Hā’ena on Kaua’i ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 23—By proposing fishing rules that would affect several herbivorous fish species in Hawaii, the state finds itself in a ...

“I had to go 100 miles north up just to get my subsistence needs,” Herman Hootch said. (Olivia Ebertz/KYUK) This has been the worst salmon fishing season on record for the Yukon River. King salmon, a ...

As the Alaska’s largest gathering of Indigenous people gets underway in Anchorage later this week, the Alaska Federation of Natives is proposing that Congress update a key protection for rural ...

This week, Alaska’s first peoples are gathering together to visit, share, and discuss issues of import. Among them is the grave threat to subsistence fisheries posed by the Dunleavy administration’s ...