Native hunters in Alaska are about to see an increase in the number of polar bears they can harvest from the Chukchi Sea bear population.
Subsistence
Ongoing power outages spoil summer subsistence harvests in Tuluksak
Many people lost their summer subsistence harvest because of the lack of electricity to operate freezers, and the problem is expected to continue into early next week.
Norton Sound communities look to build commercial reindeer economy
Reindeer herding is an increasingly attractive economic option for communities in the Norton Sound region. As winter sea-ice cover becomes more unreliable, the traditional practice of hunting for marine mammals is more dangerous.
With groceries dwindling on a remote Alaska island, the government opened a seal harvest early
Dwindling supplies of groceries on a remote Bering Sea island prompted the federal government last month to approve an unusual, early opening of an annual subsistence seal harvest.
Yakutat sockeye fishery blindsided by historic low return
Commercial sockeye fishing in Yakutat has been closed due to historic low returns, leaving set-netters in a bind until coho and chum season later in the summer. Unlike other salmon fisheries around the Southeast, biologists never saw this coming.
U.S. Supreme Court will hear Alaskan’s case challenging federal authority again
The issue at the core of the Sturgeon case is a fight over control of rivers in Alaska.