Fish News
Sport group targets set netters
Alliance looks to ban setnets in ‘urban’ areas of state Posted: November 7, 2013 – 9:02pm | Updated: November 8, 2013 – 12:03pm By Rashah McChesney Peninsula Clarion The...
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read moreAuthor questions sport group’s use of food security study
The Kenai River Sportfishing Association has used elements of a recently released study about food security on the Kenai Peninsula to assert that commercial fishing should be curtailed in favor of sport and personal-use fishing. Not so fast, according to the one of the authors of the study, Philip Loring.
read moreCook Inlet’s Commercial Fisheries
Summer is almost here and there is a very obvious tension on the Kenai Peninsula related to the role of salmon in local communities and how to qualify what that role is among different user groups. Yes, we eat a lot of fish here and the availability of salmon to anglers is important. Salmon is a fabulous source of food, superb nutritional value. Everyone should eat it. However, to suggest that it is a real subsistence product for anglers is questionable.
read moreAlaska Salmon Alliance Press Release Re: Anti-setnet ballot initiative
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read moreCook Inlet commercial salmon worth $350M in 2011
BY MOLLY DISCHNER, ALASKA JOURNAL OF COMMERCE How much is the salmon coming out of Cook Inlet worth? According to a recent report produced for the Alaska Salmon Alliance, the fishery had a $54...
read moreAlaska Salmon Alliance Reponse to Anti-Setnet Ballot Initiative
From the Alaska Salmon Alliance Facebook page: The recent efforts by Bob Penney and the Alaska Fisheries Conservation Alliance Inc. to eliminate by ballot initiative five “urban” setnet...
read moreMat-Su gets $2.5 million for salmon, grapples with priorities
Published: November 6, 2013 By ZAZ HOLLANDER — zhollander@adn.com The Mat-Su Borough Assembly just accepted $2.5 million from the Legislature, a major infusion of money intended to boost Cook Inlet...
read moreGroup aims to ban commercial setnetting in Cook Inlet, urban Alaska
Published: November 6, 2013 Updated 13 hours ago By MICHELLE THERIAULT BOOTS — mtheriault@adn.com A new organization backed by a powerful Kenai River sportfishing advocate is trying to ban...
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