Alaska Beat

Three Cook Inlet king salmon fisheries closed

According to the Anchorage Daily News, anglers will have three fewer places to try their luck for king salmon in Southcentral Alaska this season. Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced that king salmon fishing will be off limits in the Theodore, Lewis and Chuitna rivers this year, and that commercial king fishing will be prohibited from one mile south of the Chuitna River to the Susitna River. Biologists hope the closures will increase the rivers' returns because over the last three years, all three rivers have failed to meet the escapement goals set for them. Read much, much more, here.

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