...commercial fish division has the authority to restrict commercial fishing in that area, sport fish division does not, Fandrei said. "Sport fish division has the ability to allow you to hit the escapement goal, but they don't have the ability...

...Soldotna is too dangerous for a fish board meeting. You could say that the well has been poisoned ever since. Sport fish division should provide the timely king salmon reports. Task force recommendations should be subject to the customary public...

...catch per unit effort have less historical data, said Robert Begich, area biologist for the Fish and Game's sport fish division after the meeting. A fifth index, the DIDSON, the department's new sonar, could occasionally be used as a...

...return, I think that would be very useful information to have." Bob Clark, chief fisheries scientist for the sport fish division of Fish and Game, said he was encouraged by the amount of information presented at the symposium. "We noticed...

...across the state that would serve as "indicator stocks" in what Bob Clark, chief fisheries scientist for the sport fish division of Fish and Game, hopes will result in a centralized database of the state's king salmon research. The Kenai...

...well below the minimum goal of 5,300 set by the department. Robert Begich, area fisheries biologist in the sport fish division of Fish and Game, said the run numbers could be even lower as the department's prediction doesn't take into...

...passage estimates for king salmon continue to remain low while sockeye salmon passage estimates are increasing. The sport fish division's DIDSON sonar king salmon passage estimate on the Kenai River is still below the previous two years. The latest...

...the DIDSON longer than the sport fish division and ran the two types of sonar...comparison between the two. The sport fish division has relied on several non-sonar...into the moon." So, the sport fish division began using non-sonar indices...

...Then, there's funding. Commercial fishing management is paid for through the state's gneral fund, while the sport fish division runs on license fees and matching federal dollars. Merging departments would mean sharing resources to manage the...

...Director Craig Fleener as deputy commissioner and former Sport Fish Division Director Kelly Hepler as assistant commissioner...was a special assistant to Lloyd after serving as Sport Fish Division director from 2001 to 2006. While Hepler has a sport...