Dan Veerhusen in Sand Point last summer, preparing the Taurus for the herring season. Captain Dan Veerhusen and Jan, his wife, run the Taurus, one of the few remaining boats that still fish herring in ...

With spring in the air and higher prices for halibut and black cod, optimism is blooming at Alaska's largest firm selling fishing boats and permits. "We are heading into this year ...

Since its premiere in 2006, Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch is an addictive look into the wild and treacherous lives of those aboard crab fishing boats in the Bering Sea — an occupation that ...

Todd Meadows, a deckhand on a boat featured in the long-running reality TV series "Deadliest Catch," has died while fishing off the coast of Alaska. Captain Rick Shelford, one of the stars of the ...