(Anchorage) – The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G), Divisions of Sport and Commercial Fisheries, will be hosting a Prince William Sound Shrimp Fisheries informational meeting. This will be held via Zoom on Thursday, February 12 from 7:00 – 8:30pm and open to the public. Topics to be covered will be how the shrimp fisheries […]
A remotely piloted underwater glider is showing promise as a tool to track crabs in the Bering Sea, where their numbers have plummeted. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the University of Alaska Fairbanks have tested the glider Shackleton for the past three years to locate tagged crabs. The 6-foot-long glider, which is […]
(Homer) – The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) announced Monday the Cook Inlet and North Gulf Coast sport and subsistence Tanner crab fisheries season, gear, and limits for the 2024–2025 season. The “limited” Tanner crab fisheries will be open from October 1, 2024, through February 28, 2025 with a bag and possession limit […]
(Soldotna) – ADF&G and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are collaborating on a multi-year radio tagging study of adult coho salmon in the Kenai River drainage. Fall and winter of 2024 is the final year of a three-year study to assess run timing, migratory patterns, and spawning distribution of coho salmon in the Kenai River drainage. […]