An Escanaba who was working on a fishing vessel in Alaska has been found dead. 28-year-old Jacob Riley Veeser, an Escanaba native, began working on vessels in the Bering Sea about nine years ago. Most ...

1 (UPI) --Five people are missing after a fishing boat ... was registered to the vessel. The signal originated just south of Point Couverden in Icy Strait, an island in Alaska's Haines Borough ...

Average seas in the Bering Sea have around 10- to 20-foot ... one to two days to get to and from the fishing area. Before heading up to Alaska, the ship loads up with three months' worth of ...

The U.S. Coast Guard is suspending its search for five people who went missing after a fishing boat capsized near Point Couverden, Alaska ... while sea swells reached 6 feet.

Alaska Sea Grant is hosting a one-day “Business of Fishing” workshop on Saturday, April 29 at 9 a.m. at the UAS Ketchikan Maritime Center.  Advanced registration is required, and lunch is provided.

The National Science Foundation has provided funding for the first year of activities in a four-year agreement concerning a research vessel ... sea floor — forms on the Arctic Alaska coastline ...