After the next 36 hour fishing opportunity, YDNWR and KRITFC will rescind all previous fishing restrictions announced for 2024, returning management of the River to the State of Alaska and ADF&G.
The Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge (YDNWR) In-Season Manager, hereby announces two gillnet and one rod and reel fishing opportunity for federally qualified subsistence users.
The Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge (YDNWR) Manager, as In-Season Manager, announces a gillnet fishing opportunity for Federally qualified subsistence users.
The Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge (YDNWR) Manager, as In-Season Manager, hereby announces five gillnet fishing opportunities for Federally qualified subsistence users.
The Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge Manager, as In-Season Manager, hereby announces two additional set net fishing opportunities for Federally qualified subsistence users only on the Lower Kuskokwim, on July 1 and July 6, respectively.
On September 22, 2022, the Alaska Department of Fish & Game (ADF&G) submitted its annual 3 Rivers Index letter to NOAA Fisheries with preliminary 2022 total Chinook salmon run estimates, harvest levels, and spawner escapements to the Unalakleet, Yukon, and Kuskokwim Rivers.
Now under State management, ADF&G announced that the Kuskokwim River from mouth to headwaters will open to subsistence gillnet fishing on Saturday, July 23, 2022.
This is an announcement from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) in Bethel for subsistence fishermen in the Kuskokwim Area, Subsistence Sections 4-5, released June 9, 2022.
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is hosting a public listening session on May 11 from 9am - 4pm to develop spend plans for federal fishery disaster allocations.
In April, Alaska Department of Fish and Game published estimates of 2021 salmon harvests and escapements and 2022 preseason forecasts for rivers around Alaska.