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… Continue reading
The change is contingent on the State Board of Fisheries approving the gear during their March meeting.
Kenai River king salmon were designated a stock of management concern in 2023.
This year’s forecast is greater than the department’s projections from last year.
Dave Atcheson will talk where, how to fish in Kenai Peninsula lakes on Feb. 4.
The funding stems from fishery disasters that were first recognized and allocated in 2022.
The event is set for 6 p.m. at the Goods on Tuesday, Jan. 7
The governor has recognized economic disasters for local fisheries in 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023
The CFEC gave emergency approval to the gear in May but decided in June not to approve dipnets as permanent gear
Seines were tested on local beaches this summer in effort helmed by Lisa and Brian Gabriel
Discussion of expanded time, days and season of commercial dipnet fishery scheduled for March
The board last met in Seward in 2019
The State Board of Fisheries this week rejected calls from the Kenai Peninsula Borough and the cities of Kenai, Soldotna, Homer, Seward, Seldovia and Kachemak… Continue reading
The commission is responding to “new petitions” for the gear to be added
The event will feature the familiar silent auction and Kenai River Brewing’s Two-Timing Trout Ale
The National Marine Fisheries Service in June allocated $11,484,675 to address losses from the 2021 and 2022 fisheries
The requests ask the board hear fishing regulation proposals outside of their three-year cycle