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Togiak National Wildlife RefugeThe federal government is seeking Alaska Native perspectives on how climate change has affected subsistence, and how subsistence policies could be updated to address those changes. They are also looking for ideas on how management of subsistence resources could better accommodate Alaska Native peoples’ needs. -
Olivia Ebertz/KYUKOn Dec. 8 and 9, U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan and Rep. Don Young held a Zoom meeting between salmon researchers, tribes, and managers. Their goal was to unite these groups’ efforts to determine the cause of the ongoing Chinook declines and the sudden chum crash in Western Alaska. After two days of meetings, the groups are still at odds over what’s causing the declines, and what the best way to move forward is.
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”Ouch," CVRF CEO Eric Deakin said was his reaction. "Before we did the deal in 2020, the projections were really high that the crab was headed up. And this was a total surprise.” -
“I'm wondering why you need this extra year of data,” said Kevin Whitworth. “Why can't you just use the past two, three years of data, or traditional knowledge, or what we're seeing here in the river? I think there's a lot of data now supporting a stock of concern for both chum and Chinook.”
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The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced an emergency opening in a portion of Unit 18 south of the Eek River drainage, and north of and including the Carter Bay drainage. The hunt will open Dec. 1 and end Dec. 15.
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“We're concerned that the jet traffic, the several boats that are using those rivers, that are not very wide to begin with, and not very big to begin with, are interfering with the spawning of the salmon,” said working group member LaMont Albertson.
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“It doesn't seem to get any better with these restrictions. Why not just go out there and deal with the other half of the problem: the trawlers, the pollock big fleet fisheries,” said Kotlik subsistence fisherman Patrick Black.
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“We’re not policy experts,” Kuskokwim River Intertribal Fish Commission Executive Director Mary Peltola said, “We’re not scientists. We’re not career people. This isn’t part of our career ladder. We’re very desperate to pass on the knowledge that we’ve received over 12,000 years on how to live in harmony with salmon and utilize salmon as our foundational diet.”
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Unofficial estimates of this summer’s king salmon run in Western Alaska rivers show a lower than average return, which will trigger stricter limits on the…
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Hunters along the lower Kuskokwim River have harvested fewer moose this fall than in recent years. State biologist Patrick Jones wrote in an email that as…
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This season is shaping up to be the worst fall for salmon fishing on the Yukon River in recorded history. It follows the worst recorded summer salmon…
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In Western Alaska, chum salmon stocks have sharply declined over the last two years. That’s a problem, because people in the region depend heavily on the…
