Fishing for Salmon Fishing for Salmon Fishing is a very popular sport in Alaska. There are two main types of fishing, commercial and sport.
Commercial fishing requires a permit because large quantities of fish are usually caught.
It would be hard to catch and locate fish in the ocean, so commercial salmon fishers just go to where the fish come into the mouth of the river from the ocean. There are three different kinds of this type of fishing. One way is to have a boat with tall poles with lines that go into the water with hooks, called trolling. Another way of commercial fishing is gill netting . Gill netters put a net in front of migrating fish, and the fish get their gills stuck in the nets.