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Kenai River late run king salmon returns triggers restrictions in commercial setnet fishery

July 2, 2015 North Pacific

On the opening day of fishing for Kenai River late run king salmon Wednesday, Alaska Department of Fish and Game managers announced restrictions for the commercial setnet fishery that operates on the east side of Cook Inlet. For the second consecutive fishing season, restrictions in sport fishing for Kenai River king salmon have triggered automatic restrictions in the number of hours setnetters can fish. Read the rest here 07:32

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Setnet innovation may solve war between Alaska’s commercial, sport fishermen in Cook Inlet

February 3, 2014 North Pacific

For decades, commercial fisheries biologists with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game fought the idea it might be possible to pass Kenai River king salmon through Cook Inlet setnet fisheries with minimal losses. But on Saturday, a commercial setnetter offered a ray of hope. Read more@alaskadispatch 12:27

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Conserving the Kenai king is a mandate for board, ADFG

January 5, 2014 North Pacific

Editor’s note: This is the 10th and final part of the Morris Communications series “The case for conserving the Kenai king salmon.” King salmon are the lynchpin of the Cook Inlet fishery. Other runs of other salmon species are far more abundant, but the health of king salmon affects all users. Alaska is currently experiencing historic low runs of king salmon returning to major systems throughout the state. It affects Alaskans who have fished for kings for years in these rivers and creeks, and the visitors thousands of businesses depend on every summer. Read more@juneauempire 22:26

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While kings drive news, sockeyes drive area’s economy – Part 3

November 21, 2013 North Pacific

Editor’s note: This is the third in the Morris Communications series “The case for conserving the Kenai king salmon.” There are very few things that can immediately quantify the declining value of sport fishing for Kenai River king salmon as quickly as the shelves at Trustworthy Hardware in Soldotna. more@homernews The case for conserving the Kenai king salmon Part II Salmon species other than kings thriving in Alaska 12:30

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Group aims to ban commercial setnetting in Cook Inlet, Valdez, Fairbanks, Mat-Su, Juneau and Ketchikan

November 6, 2013 North Pacific

A new organization backed by a powerful Kenai River sportfishing advocate is trying to ban setnetting from all urban areas in Alaska, including Cook Inlet. more@fishradio 20:40

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The world famous Kenai River king salmon are facing a major crisis

July 24, 2013 North Pacific

There appear to be several reasons for the low returns: poor ocean survival, catches by the high-seas trawlers, setnet catches in Cook Inlet and marginal productivity. And there may be others. [email protected]

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Art and science of counting the Kenai River’s precious king salmon – ‘Kenai not overharvested’

January 16, 2013 North Pacific

New numbers are out, setting the goalposts to which the late run of Kenai River king salmon will be managed. Scientists with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game have released a draft interim escapement goal recommendation calling for 15,000 to 30,000 late-run kings to escape fishing nets and hooks to spawn in the Kenai. The goal is a decrease from the previous range of 17,800 to 37,500 kings. New sonar fish counters. Moving sonar upriver. ‘Kenai not overharvested’. An ‘evolving’ goal. Read more

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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