Seine, troll and gillnet harvesters in Southeast Alaska are appealing to federal authorities to keep the Roadless Rule intact for Tongass National Forest to protect spawning grounds for salmon and the livelihoods of hundreds of area residents. “We need to manage Southeast Alaska for fish habitat, not logging,” says commercial harvester Jeff Farvour, vice president […]
A spat over subsistence fishing on the Yukon River sent one man to jail and got another a citation on Thursday, the troopers reported. Troopers responded to Tanana after receiving a report of an assault on Thursday. The investigation at the interior community revealed that Lester Erhart attempted to run over Aaron Kozevnikoff twice with […]
It was reported on Monday by the Alaska State Troopers that a Alaska Fish and Wildlife Trooper located an abandoned 10-fathom subsistence net on the Yukon River last week. When troopers checked the 10-fathom, four in mesh gillnet, they found that it also had an unmarked buoy. When they retrieved the net, they found that […]