The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has set a harvest limit for this year’s Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery.

The Togiak sac roe herring fishery used to draw hundreds of fishermen. “It was like a gold rush,” said Frank Woods, who lives in Dillingham and started fishing for Togiak herring in the mid-1980s.

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska court upheld a lawsuit by a tribal organization against the state concerning the sac roe herring fishery and its protection as a subsistence resource. Juneau Superior ...

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 ...

Editor note: In this story, "t" designates metric tons - the fishery in North America operates in "short" or US tons, a measure that is written in full every time it is used The 2024 sac roe herring ...

A small group of fishermen catching the highly prized herring made fortunes this week when they hauled a record-busting number of the tiny fish in Southeast Alaska's Sitka Sound. Just how many of the ...

Down on the dock I say, “Gunalchéesh,” as my friend hands me a five-gallon bucket filled with herring eggs on hemlock branches. I take the bucket home and start a small pot of water boiling. I blanch ...