“These are interception fisheries harvesting migrating salmon on their way home to rivers that in some cases are hundreds or thousands of miles away,” said Emma Helverson, Executive Director of Wild Fish Conservancy. “Communities in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia...
The quota for Zones 1 and 4 combined is 40, and the current reported harvest in these zones is 10. The state hunting season is scheduled to remain open in the remainer of the hunt area (Zones 2 and 3). The...
Conditions during the open season for drawing permit hunts DG471, DG472 and DG479 created optimal hunting conditions resulting in high hunter success. Consequently, the harvest objective within these hunt areas was met during the drawing hunt and registration hunts RG471 (Wild...
Afognak Island elk are managed using established harvest guidelines for individual herds and a 10 percent
harvest objective for the overall elk population. A harvest objective of 16 elk was established for this portion of
the hunt area and as of October 26,...
The 2026 estimated mid-summer herd size is estimated to be 27,000 caribou. Based on this, the pre-hunt annual herd quota was set at 550 in early August, based on a 2% herd harvest rate. The total harvest during the fall Fortymile...
Deep in the Alaskan outback, we discover a small bull moose staying close to a cow near a rut pit. She seems unusually interested, but there’s one big question: where are the larger bulls? As we investigate the area, the signs...
Afognak Island elk are managed using established harvest guidelines for individual herds and a 10 percent harvest objective for the overall elk population. As of October 20, hunters have reported a combined harvest of 51 elk from the Southwest Afognak hunt...
The information collected by the Alaska Sport Fishing Survey is used to produce detailed statewide estimates of the total sport fishing effort (days fished), the total number of fish caught and kept by species, and fishing location. This information, combined with...
