Tag Archives: Alaska Department of Fish and Game

Sac Roe herring fishermen gear up in Sitka but not everyone is pleased with Fish and Game’s plan for the fishery. We have a report on talk of civil disobedience on the water.   Halibut opened on March 15. The catch limit is up slightly and market conditions look good. And we look at salmon genetics. Salmon researchers are trying …

Sockeye in stream. (Photo by Watershed_Watch / flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT Late run sockeye and early run coho salmon could help soften the effect of a poor fishing season for some Alaska fishermen. Alaska Department of Fish and Game Kodiak area manager James Jackson says sockeye looks on-track to meet the forecast of roughly 1.6 million fish for the late run. …

Sockeye salmon schooling in Hidden Lake. (Photo by USFWS/Katrina Mueller) Managers expect Kodiak pink salmon to meet escapement goals although the harvest remains weak. The situation for sockeye salmon is much more dire. Some Kodiak-area river systems are performing better than others. Kodiak had its lowest sockeye harvest in 38 years this season. That’s according to ADF&G Research Biologist Kevin Schaberg. “It …

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.

Sockeye salmon schooling in Hidden Lake. (Photo by USFWS/Katrina Mueller) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The west side and south end of Kodiak Island opened to commercial sockeye salmon fishing Monday, but it looks like there might be less variety of certain fish ages. Alaska Department of Fish and Game Salmon biologist James Jackson says sockeye may spend a year to three years …

Sockeye salmon schooling in Hidden Lake. (Photo by USFWS/Katrina Mueller) Daysha Eaton/KMXT The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is closing sport and subsistence fishing on Kodiak’s Litnik or Afognak Lake and Buskin River drainages due to low escapement. The closure begins Saturday. ADF&G closed sport and subsistence sockeye salmon fishing in the Afognak River and the Buskin River systems. “Right now …

(Photo by Ingrid Taylar / Flickr) Daysha Eaton/KMXT Kodiak’s commercial salmon season opened over the weekend. James Jackson, the Kodiak Commercial Salmon and Herring Area Management Biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, says that on Friday the fish started moving at Karluk. “We had one day of 44,000 followed by several twentys and, basically, in four days, …

Emperor geese flying in the Yukon Delta. (Photo courtesy of the United States Fish & Wildlife Service/Flickr) Mitch Borden/KMXT Last fall was the first time in decades Alaskans were allowed to hunt emperor geese. After reviewing how last year’s season went the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is preparing for the 2018 hunting season. After almost 30 years, Alaskans were …

Tanner crab. (Photo by Paul Quesnell / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The tanner crab fishery wrapped up last week. Nat Nichols, Alaska Department of Fish and Game area management biologist for the Groundfish, Shellfish & Dive Fisheries, says the opening lasted roughly four days, which is about what they expected. And as far participation goes, he says a total of 55 …

On today’s Talk of the Rock, we chat about the recent tanner crab opening with Nat Nichols from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. He’ll give a retrospective on the tanner crab fishery, which opened this year for the first time in Kodiak since 2013.