...million fish in upper Cook Inlet, which is more than the last few years but well below the heyday, when drift and setnet fishers landed double or triple that amount year after year. And even though the 2002 forecast is in line with long-term...

...coal mine, then set ourselves up for more mercury in our fish when old Asian power plants burn this coal?? said setnet fisher Terry Jorgensen. A recent Freedom of Information Act request showed there have been regular meetings, teleconferences...

...Alaska." Rob Williams, president of the Kenai Peninsula Fishermen's Association, which represents almost 300 setnet fishers, said he hopes another season as bad as 2000 doesn't come around again. "We've had some real bad runs the last...

...The Alaska Department of Fish and Game issued an emergency opening running from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. Sunday for setnet fishers in the Kasilof section of the upper Cook Inlet subdistrict. The closure for the drift gillnet fishery in the Kasilof...