The following appears in the April issue of Alaska Sporting Journal: PHOTOS BY HOMER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BY CHRIS COCOLES In the winter of 2020, the community of Homer was busily preparing for the 27th installment of its popular winter king...
The following is courtesy of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game: This news release opens a 10-day public comment period, wherein an amendment to the 2021 Statewide Stocking Plan (SSP) has been proposed by the Alaska Department of Fish and...
The following is courtesy of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game: (Fairbanks) – The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is closing the entire Kuskokwim River drainage (including all tributaries) to sport fishing for king salmon, effective 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May...
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...