Alaska’s wild salmon commercial harvests more than doubled from July 4 through July 12, with deliveries to processors rising from 18.3 million to 42 million fish, in another late run year that left Bristol Bay driftnetters waiting for the surge. As of July 12, the state’s preliminary commercial salmon harvest report showed a total Bristol […]
While Alaska Wildlife troopers from time to time find tender crewmembers without commercial crew-member licenses. But, on Monday, during a boarding in the northern Gulf Coast, Wildlife troopers would issue citations to an entire crew. On Monday Alaska Wildlife Troopers boarded the F/V Echo Belle while it was tendering near Sand Point. As a result […]
Commercial harvests of Alaska’s wild salmon have expanded statewide, with total deliveries nearing 5 million fish, including nearly 3 million sockeyes. Preliminary harvest figures compiled by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game show that in the westward region, processors in the Alaska Peninsula have received 950,000 humpies, 883,000 sockeyes, 134,000 chums and fewer than […]
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced the first commercial salmon opening on Kodiak Island for the 2016 Salmon season on Tuesday. The season will open on June 2nd, about a week earlier than usual. The opening will be for 57 hours in the Northwest Kodiak District and the Southeast Afognak District. Fish and […]