Tag Archives: ADF & G

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, we sit down with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to chat about salmon in the state, the sockeye run in Kodiak, and the world of fisheries at large.

(Adult Sockeye Salmon encounter a waterfall on their way up-river to spawn. (Photo by Marvina Munch/USFWS) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has released its 2017 review for salmon harvest in the Kodiak Management Area. According to the report, the total 2017 area wide commercial harvest of roughly 31.8 million fish was average compared to recent years, …

Tail of a Chinook. (Photo by Matana_and_Jes / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The next year may see some weak runs for kings in Southeast. Managers are forecasting lower than average numbers for the Chilkat, Taku, Stikine, Unuk, and King Salmon Rivers. Deputy Director of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game Division of Commercial Fisheries, Forrest Bowers, says stocks in Southeast …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Representatives from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game gave a brief overview of the upcoming commercial Tanner crab season to an audience of two at a recent informational meeting. This year will be the first time the Tanner crab season has opened in Kodiak since 2013. At the meeting, ADF & G area management biologist Nat Nichols …

Valerie Brown (lerft) and Melanie Brown speak to audience at ComFish. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT A bill introduced earlier this week could strengthen the legal protection for salmon habitats in Alaska through a reformation of the permitting process. Representatives from the Stand for Salmon coalition, which is working toward better legal guardianship of natural resources, spoke at ComFish yesterday. Salmon …