...here with this year's lack of king salmon. The impact felt to our economy, especially by many of our guides and commercial fishers, was just a small taste of what would happen in Bristol Bay if even modest contamination of groundwater were to...
...record, being just 85 percent of it. Another nadir in Cook Inlet sockeye harvests happened in 1958. That year commercial fishers caught just 470,000-the lowest harvest all the way back to 1908. The ESSN fleet, however, came away with...
...and its citizens," she said. Some conservationists and others hailed EPA's action Friday. Lindsey Bloom, a commercial fisher and organizer with Trout Unlimited, said her first impression of the assessments was that it gives her some peace...
...with that end goal in mind because that's just for the overall economic benefit of the charter fishers and the commercial fishers." Speegle said a one-halibut limit for guided anglers is "definitely not a sure thing" despite the cries of...
...this year. Dipnetting numbers are not yet tabulated. Just thought I would set some numbers straight. By the way, I am with the South Central Alaska Dipnetters Association, as Mr McCombs was or is a commercial fisher. Ken Federico Wasilla
...are Soldotna fishing guide Andrew Szczesny, Kodiak commercial fisher Oliver Holm and Sitka resident Eric Jordan, who has worked as both a commercial fisher and sport fishing guide. The three appointments...
...but the Legislature didn't confirm my appointment," Johnson said. "I would have been the first Cook Inlet commercial fisher to serve on the Board of Fisheries since Dan Garroutte of Ninilchik served from 1975 to 1980." He said he was disappointed...
...product that could be marketed to the world. "At that time, the market for pink salmon had just about gone away and commercial fishers could hardly get twenty five cents a pound for them," recalled West. He played around with a lot of homemade...
...Fisheries Management Council. That body is responsible for halibut management. Maw has been a wildlife manager, commercial fisher, charter boat operator, and is the executive director of United Cook Inlet Drift Association. He has a doctor's...
...because the Kenai's streams and rivers are already fully allocated. Sport fishers, personal-use dipnetters and commercial fishers take the surplus beyond what's needed for spawning to maintain the health of the runs. Also, federal managers...
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