During their January 11–23 meeting, the Alaska Board of Fisheries (board) made the following regulatory changes to Southeast Alaska sport fisheries. The 2018 sport fishing regulations summary will be published and made available by late April. The following changes are...
Too good to be true? Extraordinary? Epic? When a Facebook post circulated on Wednesday night, it briefly looked like quite a remarkable halibut catch. Here’s what the caption read: Great day of fishing today below the bridge in Kenai.. Many people...
Excellent Alaska fishing industry writer Laine Welch penned a piece today in the Alaska Journal of Commerce about the drop in expected halibut catch limits after the governing body was not able to come up with updated numbers in a 2018...
After the Environmental Protection Agency did an about-face on Friday and applied the brakes on the greenlighting the Pebble Mine project “at this time” – per EPA head Scott Pruitt in his statement – Reuters reports this morning that Northern Dynasty Ltd.,...
The following press release is courtesy of the Environmental Protection Agency: Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt is following through on his promise to restore the rule of law and process to the previous Administration’s action to...
The following appears in the January issue of Alaska Sporting Journal BY CHRIS COCOLES Coming back from Russia with gloves – not to mention skis, poles and boots – Sadie Bjornsen wanted to get back to the Winter Olympics. Four years after...
The Alaska Board of Fisheries is taking some blowback – and maybe even regretting its decision on upcoming Chinook regulations – after its Southeast Alaska meetings wrapped earlier this week . Here’s Alaska Public Media’s Robert Woolsey on Chinook salmon initiatives for...
-BW #earthquake #tsunami #alaska #akgov pic.twitter.com/alSFVbuPpb — Bill Walker (@BillWalkerAk) January 23, 2018 As a native Californian, I’ve experienced my share of earthquakes over the years, and many Alaskans are used to the ground shaking in their fault-heavy state. So by...