A news analysis The mayor of Kenai, Alaska is “extremely disappointed” with the Alaska Board of Fisheries, and the mayor of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough less than pleased but “satisfied” with the Board’s big […]
Prelude to war
Curtain of death
Two years after a bitter and unproductive fight to remove what are sometimes called the “curtains of death” in Alaska’s Cook Inlet, a new study is suggesting the answer to […]
Yes, no, maybe
Only days after over-seeing the deaths of nearly 90,000 Upper Cook Inlet coho salmon in two commercial drift gillnet openings in the belief the coho run was late and strong, fishery […]
Mat-Su coho struggle
No sooner does one Cook Inlet salmon crisis pass than another erupts. This times its coho salmon in the spotlight. Little Susitna River guide Andy Couch said Wednesday he felt like he’d […]
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 […]
Salmon run creeps up
This is a developing story With almost 50,000 sockeye salmon hitting the Kenai River on Monday and another 60,000 going upriver on Tuesday, biologists with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game […]
The fish arrive
If you’re in Alaskan and wanting salmon, get your butt to the Kenai River. After four straight days with Cook Inlet closed to commercial nets because of a faltering sockeye salmon return, […]
Dipnet struggles
UPDATE: With weekend dipnetting on the Kenai River a bust and sockeye salmon returns badly lacking – the Saturday sonar count was a dismal 14,280 fish – the Alaska Department of Fish and Game […]
The curtain falls
Update: Just after this story posted, the catch numbers for Saturday’s commercial opening were reported. There was a catch of 150,120 sockeye on the day bringing the season total to 912,069 sockeye. […]
