Management 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 lesson every elected official in Alaska learns firsthand sooner or...Cook 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 years. But the current attack on personal use and sport fishing by...Killing 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 massacring them with kindness. In a 19-page document that mirrors the format...Solution 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.