After receiving a report of two dead bear cubs in the Naknek River on June 17th, Alaska State Troopers met with 36-year-old Katie Copps-Wilson of Naknek to ask her about the bear carcasses.
In an effort to get first-hand information and hear directly from the Alaskans impacted, U.S. Sen. Mark Begich will be in Bethel next Monday where he is hosting a fishery roundtable with community leaders and fishery managers.
About a dozen of the fishermen cited for fishing during the subsistence closure appeared in the Bethel Courthouse on Monday.
The landing craft "Monterrey" had intended to spend a lot of the summer in Mertarvik, but instead will spend the season in Seward.