A fisherman at the mouth of the Buskin River. (Photo by Lisa Hupp/USFWS) The Buskin River will close for subsistence and sport sockeye salmon fishing on Sat. June 11 at 12:01 a.m., according to Alaska’s Department of Fish and Game. The closure encompasses the inside waters of Chiniak Bay from Cliff Point to the southernmost tip of Near Island to …
Read More »Salmon season starts out slow around state, including Kodiak
The 2020 Alaska salmon season is off to a slow start, but it is too early to draw any conclusions, according to an economist with McDowell Group in Anchorage. Garrett Evridge writes a weekly statewide newsletter that updates salmon harvests for the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute. In this week’s report, Evridge explains that in an average year less than 10 …
Read More »Sockeye salmon run remains slow
A pair of spawning salmon. (Photo by Katrina Mueller / USFWS) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The sockeye salmon run remains sluggish. According to James Jackson, salmon biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Kodiak’s sockeye run is the slowest it’s been for the last 40 years. He writes that it ranks as the 6th worst harvest since 1970. But Jackson …
Read More »Alaska Fisheries Report – September 21, 2017
Coming up this week on the Alaska Fisheries report, Bristol Bay’s Nushagak King run wasn’t quite as poor as on one sonar site determined. The inaccuracy may have been partly due to a design flaw. And, Kodiak is preparing to fight back against what it sees as a major threat to its commercial salmon fishery. We had help from KDLG’s …
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