Fish News
Fishermen focus on how ADFG sets, achieves escapement goals
By MOLLY DISCHNER, ALASKA JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Editor’s note: This is the eighth in the Morris Communications series, “The case for conserving the Kenai king salmon.” Each spring, as the early-run...
read moreASA Press Release: Coalition Issues Statement on Growing Resistance to Proposed Ban on Setnetters – City of Kenai the Latest to Oppose Job-Killing Measure
From the desks of the Alaska Salmon Alliance: The Alaska Salmon Alliance is releasing the following statement regarding last night’s unanimous approval of a resolution from the City of Kenai...
read moreQuestions remain about king counts after Fish and Game shifts to high-tech sonar
By Rashah McChesney – Peninsula Clarion Editor’s note: This is the sixth story in the Morris Communications series “The case for conserving the Kenai king salmon.” In the continuing saga of...
read moreKenai Area Fisherman’s Coalition Letter to Lt. Gov. – Anti-setnet Ban
[gview file=”https://aksalmonalliance.org/staging1/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/KAFC-Initiative-Letter-2.doc”] Because the Alaska Salmon Alliance wish to provide a wide breadth of...
read moreBigger red salmon run forecast for Alaska’s Cook Inlet next summer
Cordova Times – December 14, 2013 State fisheries research biologists forecast a run of 6.1 million sockeye salmon into Upper Cook Inlet in next summer, with a harvest of 4.3 million reds....
read moreManagement challenge: Inlet ‘fish wars’ escalate as king productivity ebbs
By Andrew Jensen, Managing editor – Alaska Journal of Commerce Editor’s note: This is the seventh in the Morris Communications series, “The case for conserving the Kenai king salmon.” It’s a...
read moreManagement challenge: Inlet ‘fish wars’ escalate as king productivity ebbs
By Andrew Jensen, Managing editor – Alaska Journal of Commerce Editor’s note: This is the seventh in the Morris Communications series, “The case for conserving the Kenai king salmon.” It’s a...
read moreCook Inlet commercial interests launch all-out attack on personal use and sport fishing
By Kevin Delaney, December 12, 2013 OPINION: Fighting over fish in the Upper Cook Inlet is nothing new. Both sport and commercial groups have has aggressively sought to a share of the catch for...
read moreKilling Kenai kings with kindness? Paper argues catch-and-release a death sentence for many fish.
By Craig Medred, December 8, 2013 A new theory has emerged to explain why the world’s largest king salmon are disappearing from Alaska’s Kenai River: Catch-and-release anglers are...
read moreSolution Needed for Cook Inlet Salmon
The Anchorage/ MatSu region is the major population center in Alaska and the fastest growing in Alaska. Cook Inlet, an integral part of the region, separates two of Alaska's major river systems, the Kenai River watershed, on the Kenai Peninsula and the Susitna River watershed, adjacent to Anchorage and the Mat-Su Valley.
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