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The very first thing Friday morning, sport fishing for coho salmon in the Buskin River drainage will close by emergency order due to a lack of escapement. The closure starts at one minute past midnight Thurs. Tyler Polum, Fish and Game’s sport fish biologist in Kodiak said that the 2016 season is roughly half over and there are are fewer …

Salmon fishermen in the Kodiak Management Area are harvesting about 200,000 pink salmon a day, which, according to Fish and Game Area Management Biologist James Jackson, is right up there among the slowest of pink salmon years. “We are having one of the poorest pinks runs we have seen in a very long time. Usually by the beginning of August …

Salmon continue to swim into Kodiak area fishermens’ nets at a brisk pace. On Sunday, nearly 131,000 more fish were added to the season total, bringing the all-species catch to-date, according to Fish and Game numbers, up to 2,228,173. Pink salmon are being caught in ever-increasing amounts, with over 73,000 harvested on Sunday, bringing the season total to just over …

Low escapement of sockeye salmon to a popular Kodiak road system river will result in its closing at a minute past midnight on Saturday morning. That announcement was made Thursday morning by the Kodiak office of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. With just 373 sockeye salmon counted at the Pasagshak River weir as of Wednesday, Fish and Game …

In a note to Alitak District fishermen, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s Westward Region research staff announced a public meeting for Thursday to discuss ongoing salmon research, current issues, and potential research plans in Olga Bay watersheds. The meeting will take place at Trap Point on Thursday, June 23, at 1 p.m. To promote attendance by all interested …

Kodiak salmon fishermen have delivered just about a quarter million fish so far in this young season, according to Fish and Game’s daily in-season harvest summary. With Sunday and Monday’s deliveries, the all-species catch stands at 248,737. Nearly 38,000 red salmon came over the rails on Sunday and another 13,000 on Monday, boosting the sockeye salmon total to over 176,000. …

The Kodiak Management Area salmon catch is up over 80,000 fish with slow Sunday harvest of just over 4,000 fish added to the season all-species total. Chum, or dog salmon, saw 2,112 delivered, boosting season numbers to 11,018. There were 1,948 reds harvested, bringing the harvest through the 12th to 68, 261 sockeye. The season catch of pinks went up …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT As the pink salmon run reaches its peak and the berries ripen across the island, a certain Kodiak resident is bound to be collecting their share of the bounty. Larry VanDaele is a wildlife biologist with Alaska Department of Fish and Game and said now is the time we start to see more and more bears around town. …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Across the state anglers and biologists alike are scratching their heads and asking the same question, "where have all the king salmon gone?" For much of the state, sport fishing for the prized species, even catch and release, has been closed. Donn Tracy is the Kodiak area management biologist for the Department of Fish and Game Sportfish Division. …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak salmon harvest went over the 2-million mark Monday, with a catch of 203,060 among all species. Fish and Game says the total salmon harvest for the Kodiak Management Area through Monday is 2,185,647. For the first time this season the pink salmon harvest was greater than the sockeye salmon catch, at 92,752 humpies to 83,777 reds. …