The 2026 preseason forecast for Kenai River early-run king salmon is 2,325 large fish (fish greater than or equal to 34 inches in length). The total run forecast is less than the optimum escapement goal range of 3,900-6,600 fish. If realized,...
Based on the recent early-run king salmon escapement monitoring in the Kenai, Anchor, and Deshka Rivers, this year’s king salmon runs are forecasted to be below the lower end of their escapement goals, which has triggered preseason closures for the inriver...
The 2026 preseason king salmon forecast in the Anchor River is for a run of 2,743 fish which is below the lower end of the sustainable escapement goal range (SEG) of (3,200-6,400). King salmon escapement monitoring in the Anchor River will...
“Due to continued low productivity and poor king salmon runs in Cook Inlet streams we will again take a precautionary approach. This year the youth-only king salmon fishery on Campbell Creek will again be catch and release only due to continued...
“Since we’ve missed the Ninilchik River king salmon escapement goal in three of the last four years, we are taking a more precautionary approach with the start of this season,” stated Area Management Biologist Mike Booz. “We will be monitoring this...
“King salmon stocks in Cook Inlet streams continue to experience a period of low productivity and Eagle River is no exception. A section of the river has historically been open to fishing for king salmon for four 3-day weekends but continued...
“This rollback is clearly not lawful and I’m deeply concerned about the harms this drilling project would cause to the Arctic Ocean’s sensitive marine ecosystem,” said Rebecca Noblin, Alaska senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The only real emergency...
“Finding larvae that are dying in the field is very unlikely, but we were able to sample experimental larvae that we knew were dying rapidly due to warming,” said Emily Slesinger, researcher at NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center. They also...
