Tag Archives: Alaska Board of Fisheries

Duncan Fields. (Photo courtesy of Duncan Fields) Kayla Desroches/KMXT Governor Bill Walker has appointed Anchorage’s Alan Cain to the Alaska Board of Fisheries for a second term. The former Alaska Wildlife Trooper and Board of Fisheries consultant had previously decided not to put his name forward again. Earlier in the month, Governor Bill Walker selected commercial fisherman and former North …

Fishing boat going out to sea. (Photo: Gruscana/ Oscar’s Dock and Boats of Kodiak/flickr) Mitch Borden/KMXT A recent proposal to the Alaska Board of Fisheries asks it to limit the amount of salmon fisherman can catch in the Kodiak area. That’s according to Heather McCarty, the fisheries analyst for the City of Kodiak and the Kodiak Island Borough. At a …

The Joint Kodiak Fishery Work Group met Monday (Feb. 27) morning to review and vote on approving a letter to be sent to the Alaska Board of Fisheries regarding an intercept fishery study. It’s a letter the group plans to deliver at the Fish Board meeting currently underway in Anchorage. All four members present, co-Chair Larry LeDoux, fellow borough assemblymen …

Coming up this week: Southeast spawn-on-kelp fishermen are facing restrictions this spring to help preserve the stock; Bristol Bay gets a fisherman back on the Board of Fish, but now there’s nobody representing Kodiak. All that, and meeting the impressive ‘Seawomen of Iceland. We had help from KMXT’s Kayla Desroches in Kodiak, KDLG’s Dave Bendinger in Dillingham and KFSK’s Angela …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alaska Board of Fisheries gives anyone the chance to submit proposals and influence regulation. The board of seven members meets four to six times every year, and in January it will review and accept – or reject – those proposals in Kodiak. Todd Anderson, Fish and Game Assistant Area Management Biologist, will present to the board on …