The following is courtesy of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s Board of Game: 2021/2022 Meeting Cycle The Alaska Board of Game calls for proposed changes to hunting and trapping regulations for the Central/Southwest Region, Statewide Regulations, Areas of Jurisdiction for...
The following is courtesy of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game: (Fairbanks) – The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) is restricting Piledriver Slough and Moose Creek to catch-and-release fishing for all fish species, effective 12:01 a.m. Thursday, April 1,...
Here’s more from KTOO: “Overall, it was one of the lowest harvests we’d seen, I think since the 70s,” says Lowell Fair, the Southeast regional supervisor for the state Fish and Game department’s commercial fisheries division. It was already clear from preliminary...
Our correspondent Bjorn Dihle wrote a new book, A Shape In The Dark: Living and Dying with Brown Bears. (Check out an excerpt that ran in our February issue.). Alaska-based Dihle will be part of a virtual meet-up hosted by Conservation...
Alaska Department of Fish and Game commissioner Doug Vincent-Lang penned a letter to President Joe Biden about natural resources trade value, particularly in the seafood industry. Here’s a portion of the letter: Alaska Encourages Biden Administration to Negotiate Fair Trade Practices...
The following is courtesy of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game: Sport Fishing Closed in Peterson Creek (Juneau) – The Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Sport Fish announced today that a portion of Peterson Creek, north of Juneau,...
The following is courtesy of the Alaska Board of Game: The Alaska Board of Game (board) held a regulatory meeting on Thursday, March 18, 2021, via web-conference and took the following regulatory actions: Reauthorized all proposed antlerless moose hunts except for...
PHOTOS BY PAUL ATKINS The following appears in the March issue of Alaska Sporting Journal: BY PAUL D. ATKINS Elk, that’s it!I think it’s time to go and chase some elk. And not just any elk; I’m talking about the big...