Key advisory committee meetings and elections this month; ACs offer local sportsman input to state action
FishingGovernmentHunting March 20, 2019
Fish & Game advisory committees are scheduled to meet throughout Alaska in the coming weeks to discuss recent action by both boards of game and fish, as well in some cases hold elections for committee memberships. The committees are intended as the front line for local sportsman input into... Read more
The Alaska Board of Fisheries rejected a proposal from the Kenai River Sport Fishing Association to give more priority for non-commercial fishermen in allocating fish among Alaska user groups. The board voted 5-2 against Proposal 171 along pretty much historic commercial-sport fishing lines. A more detailed recap of the... Read more
The Alaska Board of Fisheries is in its second day of meetings in Anchorage on Saturday, beginning to take testimony on statewide proposals before the board. A lot of Saturday’s testimony was by commercial fishermen opposing proposal 171, a request by the Kenai River Sport Fishing Association for the... Read more
Getting involved in fishing regs 101
FishingGovernment March 7, 2019
Have you always wondered why some fisheries are regulated the way they are? Is there a regulation you have been wanting to see change? Are you just looking to understand how regulations are made and why some are so confusing? If so, you should attend ADF&G’s next Fishing Forum.... Read more
Board of Fish lets pink salmon stocking plan proceed; commercial fishing supporters celebrate
FishingGovernment July 17, 2018
The Alaska Board of Fish voted 4-3 Tuesday afternoon to let a planned additional stocking of hatchery pink salmon in Prince William Sound go forward. The board did not take public comment. It was standing room only at the Egan Center in Anchorage to hear the Board of Fish... Read more
Board of Fish meeting in Anchorage July 17 to consider additional pink stocking
FishingGovernment July 13, 2018
The Alaska Board of Fisheries (board) will meet at 1 p.m., July 17 at the Egan Civic and Convention Center, 555 West 3rd, Anchorage, Alaska. The purpose of the special meeting is to address an emergency petition from the Kenai River Sportfishing Association received May 16, regarding additional hatchery production in... Read more
Tuesday, April 3, 6:30 p.m. at the King Career Center in Anchorage By Lee Leschper This Tuesday there are two big elections for Anchorage residents. For local sport and subsistence fishermen, the election for open seats on the Anchorage Fish & Game Advisory Committee may be even more important... Read more
Rockfish deep water release, limits coming for SE
FishingGovernment January 18, 2018
As Board of Fish testimony continues in Sitka this week, the focus shifts to new rules for rockfish. The tasty bottom fish have received dramatically more fishing pressure in the past decade as tighter limits on charter halibut and salmon have sent fishermen looking for new options. Rockfish are... Read more
Rare joint Board of Fish, Game committee meeting this week
FishingGovernmentHunting December 18, 2017
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
Board of Fish rejects blanket salmon closure proposal
FishingGovernment October 17, 2017
By Lee Leschper The Alaska Board of Fisheries on Tuesday unamimously rejected an Agenda Change Request (ACR 10), a proposal that would have required that all Upper Cook Inlet salmon fisheries be closed together–commercial, sport and subsistence–if a salmon run was falling short of escapement goals. ACRs allow the... Read more
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