Through June 15, a total of 3,742 sockeye salmon have passed the Buskin River weir. The escapement goal for sockeye salmon into Buskin Lake is 5,000 to 8,000 fish and typically 29% of the run has occurred by this date. Based...
“On average, a typical Kenai rainbow trout runs between 18 to 20 inches. Fish in the mid-20-inch range can weigh anywhere between a couple of pounds all the way up to 10 pounds. Fish in the 10-pound class are frequent, and...
Historically, Kasaan Bay and Skowl Arm were closed to the commercial harvest of spot shrimp during the 2015–17 commercial shrimp pot seasons. It reopened for the 2018/19 season with minimal effort and then during the 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons, Kasaan Bay...
The following is courtesy of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game: ADF&G to Undertake European Green Crab Rapid Assessment Near Ketchikan (Juneau) – In response to discovery of European green crab carapaces at Refuge Cove State Recreation Site in Ketchikan on...
"There’s still so much left worth fighting for. You can still see massive brown bears, hear birds in the morning and spend weeks in true wilderness. That’s rare and precious. Every time I’m out on the bay, watching whales and seabirds,...
Illinworth said she didn’t buy a Valdez Halibut Derby ticket because she and her husband have always caught small halibut, “You just never know,” Illingworth said. “We’re planning on getting season tickets now."...
“Today’s decision concludes that the Bureau of Land Management violated one of our bedrock environmental laws when it approved Willow. BLM now needs to take seriously its obligation to reconsider its approval of Willow and consider less harmful alternatives to the...