Owing to continued warm weather, the annual Salmon in the Classroom ice fishing event put on for Kenai Peninsula Borough School District students by the State Department of Fish and Game has been canceled.

A press release from the department on Friday says that though around 400 students were registered to attend the program at Sport Lake in Soldotna on Tuesday and Wednesday, warm weather expected to continue through the weekend is resulting in unsafe conditions for the large groups of students and volunteers that were expected to take to the ice.

“ADF&G takes pride in teaching peninsula students about ethical angling practices and ice safety, which includes when not to go out on a lake and the potential dangers,” the release reads. “Unfortunately, the latter is the lesson this year.”

For more information about fishing regulations, visit adfg.alaska.gov.

Reach reporter Jake Dye at jacob.dye@peninsulaclarion.com.