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Adjustments to Cook Inlet fishery regs sought

Cook Inlet stakeholders are asking the state Board of Fisheries to consider more changes to area fisheries this…

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Adjustments to Cook Inlet fishery regs sought

Cook Inlet stakeholders are asking the state Board of Fisheries to consider more changes to area fisheries this…

A gull intrudes at the Buttwhacker cleaning table.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Gulls descend on cleaning tables

Cries of “fish on” and the splash of jumping silver salmon are welcome signs that after years of…

Anglers rim the Nick Dudiak Fishing Lagoon this week in hopes of catching a silver salmon. -Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

Outdoors & Recreation

Fishing superstitions no laughing matter when success counts

My wife and I relearned a lesson over the last week and it wasn’t pretty. Since The Fishing…

If you can’t catch anything, imitate success

Outdoors & Recreation

If you can’t catch anything, imitate success

Now that the silvers are starting to enter the Nick Dudiak Fishing Lagoon, it’s time for some of…

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Trooper Reports

July 10 Alaska Wildlife Troopers contacted a 37-year-old Anchorage man and a 43-year-old Homer woman personal-use dip netting…

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NMFS seeks more information on recreational fishing impacts

The National Marine Fisheries Service is working to improve its data on the impacts of recreational fishing. The…

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Recreational saltwater fishing policy in the works

The National Marine Fisheries Service is working on a draft policy that could incorporate more consideration of marine…

Anglers line up around the Nick Dudiak Fishing Hole on the Homer Spit on Friday, just in timeto welcome king salmon arriving on the evening’s incoming tide.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

Outdoors & Recreation

Small gift may help someone catch fish

As I wander around during the week shooting the breeze with shore anglers, I’m amazed to find that…

Community

State Trooper Report

May 25 Alaska Wildlife Troopers cited a 44-year-old Wasilla man for sport fishing in Deep Creek with a…

Report details commercial fish industry’s value to U.S.

Opinion

Report details commercial fish industry’s value to U.S.

Many Alaskans know the commercial seafood industry is an economic powerhouse, and the largest private employer in the…

Sac roe herring fishery starts early

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Sac roe herring fishery starts early

The Togiak sac roe herring fishery started nearly two weeks earlier than predicted by the Alaska Department of…

The Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association on Monday bought the Port Graham Hatchery, shown in this 2013 photo, and has plans to incubate 84 million pink salmon eggs this year at the facility. -Photo provided, Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association

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Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association hoping purchase of hatchery will revitalize fishery

Pink salmon fishing in Lower Cook Inlet could soon be revitalized as the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association finalized…