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The Buskin River weir is set up during the summer to count mainly pinks, cohos and sockeyes. (Photo by Kavitha George/KMXT) Subsistence fishing for Buskin River coho salmon will reopen at 12:01 am on Thursday, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Federal Subsistence Board. According to Alaska Department of Fish & Game Area Management Biologist James Jackson, both the …

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) 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 …

(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, …

Herring. (Photo by Thomas Quine / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kodiak’s herring sac roe fishery opened by regulation on Sunday and it looks like an early fishing season in another, bigger area could mean less participation in Kodiak waters. Alaska Department of Fish and Game area biologist James Jackson says Kodiak is one stop in a line-up of fishing areas. “Typically …

Pink salmon in Valdez. (Photo by Kimberly Holzer / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The pink salmon forecast is looking poor for the Kodiak Management Area, but not as poor as 2016. Alaska Department of Fish and Game area management biologist James Jackson gave a presentation on the numbers at ComFish yesterday. “The overall pink salmon forecast is for a  harvest estimate …

Pink salmon. (Photo by Nicole Beaulac / Flickr) The Alaska Department of Fish and Game just released its first season summary for Kodiak area salmon fisheries. KMXT chatted with area management biologist James Jackson about the end of the season report.

A pair of spawning salmon. Katrina Mueller / USFWS Kayla Desroches/KMXT With the salmon season wrapping up, state agencies are taking a look at how different management areas fared. Last week, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game released preliminary data about the 2017 state commercial salmon harvests. Out of a total of about 31,000,000 million fish caught in Kodiak, …

Pink salmon. (Video still by Chris Newly) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The salmon season is winding down, and numbers show it was a good year. James Jackson, the Kodiak Commercial Salmon Area Management biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, says any year where fishermen harvest more than 30 million salmon is a good one, and the Kodiak area is …

K.Mueller/USFWS/Flickr Mitch Borden/KMXT Kodiak fishermen are having a great pink salmon season compared to last year’s run. There are not only plenty of fish, but the run’s lasting longer than expected. There are a lot of pink salmon surging into Kodiak’s rivers right now, which is weird. James Jackson, a biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, says …