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Published: November 4th, 2009 10:02 AM
Last Modified: November 4th, 2009 10:23 AM
Link: The Redoubt Reporter Kenai River dipnetter Steve Rasmussen of Eagle River says he'll ask the Alaska Board of Fisheries to institute a test people must pass to get a dipnetting license. But the test would focus more on social obligations than it would on fishing laws. "We do need to take steps to police ourselves before others either police us or eliminate us," says Rasmussen. "As a group, we've become that big of a problem. ... While the great majority of dipnetters are very law-abiding and very respectful, there's a few, I guess you'd say bad apples, that I think are endangering it for all of us." The "problem" he's mainly referring to is the trashing of Peninsula beaches at the mouths of the Kasilof and Kenai rivers by hordes of dipnetters, most of whom are from Anchorage. Rasmussen has taught hunter education classes and is a volunteer instructor for the Department of Fish and Game.
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