Tag Archives: Kenai King Salmon
Kenai Kings Focus of Alaska Board Meeting – Video
Many fishermen feel it’s time for a rule change when it comes to the management of the king salmon runs in Alaska. The board will discuss possible policy changes in management of Kenai king salmon, what Kenai River Sportfishing Association’s Ricky Gease says is the top issue for the board. Read more@ktuu 08:31
Management challenge: ‘fish wars’ escalate as king productivity ebbs
This is the seventh in the Morris Communications series, “The case for conserving the Kenai king salmon.” Previous stories may be found at www.peninsulaclarion.com. It’s a lesson every elected official in Alaska learns firsthand sooner or later, and Gov. Sean Parnell got a fresh reminder this past April in the waning days of the legislative session when his nomination of Vince Webster to a second term on the Board of Fisheries was rejected by a 30-29 vote. “Fish politics is pretty brutal,” Parnell said of the campaign against Webster, who was the only one of his 88 nominations to not receive confirmation. Webster, a commercial Bristol Bay setnetter from King Salmon, was the target of an intense lobbying effort by the Kenai River Sportfishing Association that swayed several members of Parnell’s party into voting against him with a few declaring their decisions to be a protest against fisheries management in Cook Inlet that they assert favors commercial over recreational interests. more@peninsulaclarion 07:52
Penning some revisionist history about Kenai King Salmon
Let us all hope that the scholarship of Emilie Springer, in her doctoral studies of the culture and policy of state fisheries, is better than her research into the history of Kenai River salmon, because the woman posing behind the imprimatur of the National Science Foundation has a seriously flawed perspective on how that river came to be one of the most carefully monitored streams in the state. continued
