Tag Archives: Alaska Department of Fish and Game

Coming up this week, the fisheries in Cook Inlet remain so contentious that the Feds are being sent in to manage it; They’re going to try and track illegal fishing with an eye in the sky, and while many Alaskans are calling on the president to stop creating marine monuments, the people of Saint George are asking the feds for …

Pink salmon. Video still by Chris Newly. As KMXT reported this week, the 2016 Kodiak area pink salmon run has turned out to be among the worst in about 40 years. According to Fish and Game figures, the pink salmon catch through Monday was 3,237,640 – for the whole season. Just 32 humpies were delivered yesterday (Monday); 20 on Sunday, …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Fishing picked up appreciably Wednesday in the Kodiak Management Area. After a sub-5,000 catch day on Tuesday, fishermen delivered 31,235 fish on Wednesday. According to Fish and Game figures, the harvest to-date of all five salmon species stands at 117,146. Pink salmon saw their first big push on Wednesday, with 2,167 humpies delivered, bringing the season catch total …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Fish and Game officials switched their management scheme from sockeye to pink salmon around Kodiak Island late last week. The red harvest is currently at 1.2-million, with a catch of 105,584 on Saturday, while the pink salmon catch numbers are starting to increase. Saturday over 76,000 were caught for a total harvest of 282,000. The all-species total harvest …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT As the salmon make their way up stream, and the rivers of Kodiak bustle with eager anglers, Fish and Game wants to remind sportsfishermen about the ban on footgear with absorbent felt on the soles. Tyler Polum is a Fisheries Biologist for Fish and Game and said felt-bottomed shoes aren’t illegal, but rather, not permitted in freshwater. This …

Larry Van Daele, left, has taken a new position with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game as Regional Supervisor for the Division of Wildlife Conservation. The state agreed to move the office to Kodiak at Van Daele’s request. He is pictured here with Matt Van Daele, environmental scientist for Koniag; Kodiak artist Mary Ruskovich; CEO Anders Bjorklund at Gronklitt …

Kodiak’s Larry Van Daele says goodbye to Taquka, an orphaned Kodiak brown bear, now living at a wildlife park in Gronklitt, Sweden. Photos Anders Bjorklund Jay Barrett/KMXT A young Kodiak brown bear that was orphaned here a year and a half ago has a new home in Sweden. Bear expert Larry Van Daele, the former Fish and Game wildlife biologist …