United States Fish and Wildlife Service

Online registration for the RM615 hunt will remain open for both individual and proxy hunters until Oct. 15.

The decision is based on decent looking chum numbers and comes as the first coho begin to enter the river.

Waterfowl biologists Bryan Daniels and Randall Friendly stopped by KYUK to give an update on field research and avian influenza on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.

With the chinook run nearly wrapped up and berry season around the corner, the set and drift gillnet openers are another opportunity to harvest abundant sockeye.

Managers say they hope the openers allow federally qualified subsistence users to harvest abundant sockeye salmon.

Salmon fishing with gillnets will open on the lower river for 12 hours on June 22, while gillnet fishing between the Kalskag Line and Aniak Box will open 24/7 starting the same day.

The upcoming closures are intended to protect the chinook salmon run and have been announced as far upriver as Holy Cross.

The upcoming closures are intended to protect the bulk of the chinook salmon run and apply to coastal communities as far upriver as Marshall.

The recently signed seven-year agreement to close chinook fishing was “the bold step that needed to be taken,” a federal manager says.

Spencer Rearden, whose father served as refuge manager beginning in the late '90s, says taking the helm is the next step in a long career in resource management.