Alaska Outdoor Digest

The source for important, timely news on hunting, fishing and the outdoors in Alaska.

Board of Fish asking for proposals to change regs
Proposal deadline April 10, 2018. The Alaska Board of Fisheries (board) is issuing its 2018/2019 Call for Proposals for changes in the subsistence, personal use, sport, guided sport, and commercial fishing regulations for the Bristol Bay finfish, Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim finfish, Alaska Peninsula-Aleutian Islands-Chignik finfish, and Statewide finfish general provisions. The... Read more
ADF&G predicts horrific Southeast king salmon runs for 2018
There’ll be nothing but coal in the stockings for Southeast Alaska salmon fishermen this year. Friday’s update on forecast king salmon runs is bad, really bad or just terrible, depending on the drainage.  This portends little or no fishing opportunity for SE anglers in 2018. Here’s the release from Alaska... Read more
Good deer footage is hard to find?
Anchorage’s KTUU Channel 2 does a better job than most television stations at covering outdoor news including hunting and fishing. But a story this week this week about poor blacktail deer hunting conditions on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska, including questions about possible predation by wolves, missed... Read more
Advisory meetings good start to 2018 fishing plans
While most anglers are either digging the ice augers or putting off thinking about fishing until April, there are some important discussions this month that could affect Alaska fishing for the coming season. A number of fish and game advisory committees will meet this month to discuss and consider... Read more
Rare joint Board of Fish, Game committee meeting this week
 The Alaska Board of Fisheries (BOF) and Board of Game (BOG) will convene a teleconference meeting of its Joint Board Committee (committee) at 11 a.m., December 21. The purpose of the committee meeting is to review and recommend to both boards the necessity of holding a full Joint Board meeting... Read more
Pan-seared halibut with grapefruit avocado salsa
By Lee Leschper We love finding new recipes that make a star of our favorite catches from the Alaska summer. This is one, borrowed from Julia Levy, on Real Simple.  She sadly offered this for tilapia, a fish no Alaskan would eat. But we’ve used it this week both... Read more
Modern Fish Act advances in House
House Natural Resources Committee Approves Magnuson-Stevens Reauthorization Bill The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources on Dec. 13 approved H.R. 200, a bill sponsored by Congressman Don Young (R-Alaska) that amends the 1976 Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to provide flexibility for fishery managers and stability... Read more