The state is shutting down most summer king salmon sport and personal-use fishing around Cook Inlet amid continued declines in the fish that not that long ago filled freezers and fueled tourism in Alaska's most populated region.
King salmon caught with a fly and released in the Susitna River drainage on June 5, 2015.
The regulations mark the region’s most restrictive pre-season orders yet after 15 years of decreasing populations, according to Mike Booz, the state’s Homer-based Cook Inlet sportfish area manager.Amid an unprecedented collapse in Alaska Yukon River salmon, no one can say for certain why there are so few fishThe emergency regulations go into effect in May and extend through the end of July.
“I don’t think people are going to change their bookings,” Ritchie said, adding he expected a little griping, as happens whenever a resource gets limited. “We’re not going to push back because we want to be conservative but our clients definitely will.” Cook Inlet kings are returning in lower numbers — and smaller — than before, an ongoing problem that state biologists largely attribute to ocean conditions, a broad category that can involve
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