SOLDOTNA, AK – Representatives of the haves and have-nots of American ocean fisheries gathered in a packed college classroom here on Wednesday to offer Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, their ideas on […]
Fish pie
The late arrivals
The rains came to Alaska’s Matanuska-Susitna rivers valley over the weekend. The water in local creeks and rivers rose. And the coho salmon, notorious for sprinting from the oceans to the mountains […]
Dipnet curtain falls
The big school of sockeye salmon swarming into upper Cook Inlet in time for the last weekend of the state’s most popular personal-use dipnet fishery wasn’t quite big enough to punch its […]
Back in business
All it took was a few days of a Cook Inlet free of gillnets, and sockeye salmon were flooding the Kenai River. Since Tuesday, about 300,000 have stormed past the fish-counting sonar […]
Outdoors is big biz
SOLDOTNA – REI, Cabela’s and Bass Pro Shops were busy in Anchorage on Wednesday, and the dipnets were still pouring out the doors of Costco when the Outdoor Industry Association released a […]
Net fisheries win
Commercial fishermen looking to cast their salmon-snagging gillnets wider in Cook Inlet appear to have won the hearts of the members of the Alaska Board of Fisheries. The state regulatory authority was […]
Dipnet catch disaster
The numbers are in at last, and it turns out Gary Barnes of the Alaska Outdoor Journal had the situation pegged six months ago when he complained to Alaska Commissioner of Fish […]
Netting Alaska’s spoils
The most fought-over commodity in Cook Inlet/Craig Medred photo Fifty years ago with runs of most Cook Inlet salmon failing, every fisherman – commercial, subsistence and sport – paid the price of […]
Kenai fish fight
After Kenai River personal use dipnetters struggled through an often slow July trying to catch their winter supply of sockeye salmon, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game refused to grant them […]
Catch, release, kill fish
Part 1 of 2 If you believe the science, somewhere around 4.8 million sockeye salmon were likely caught and released in Bristol Bay last year and half them died before spawning. That’s […]
