...boat operators on the Kenai River to pass a safety course. "Our take is no action," said Robert Begich, sportfishery biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. "We don't have the authority. Further, the proposal gets away...

...said. "(There is) a lot more opportunity, they really liberalized that fishery big time." Dawkins said sportfishery biologist Robert Begich, who works in the Soldotna Fish and Game office, brought the data from the weir project to an...

...Crooked Creek. The hatchery fish are starting to show now, too,? he said. Jeff Brakefield, a Fish and Game sportfishery biologist, said kings of this size are the normal pattern for this time of year. ?For the early run, 18- to 22-pound...

...m. on May 16 and as of Tuesday, a season total of 226 king salmon have passed the site. Robert Begich, sportfishery biologist at Fish and Game's Soldotna office, said in an e-mail on Thursday that it's very early in the return...

...Approximately 17,000 kings are expected to return to the Kenai River for the early run, Robert Begich, sportfishery biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, said in an e-mail on Tuesday. The forecast is slightly higher...