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    Fishing
    Monte Roberts, left, and Greg Brush, right, raise their hands during an emergency meeting of the Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board’s guide committee at the Kenai Peninsula Region Office of Alaska State Parks near Soldotna, Alaska, on Feb. 25, 2025. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    KRSMA board pushes back on new guide stipulations,...
    By Jacob Dye • April 1, 2025 1:30 am

    Stipulations 32 and 40 were included in an updated list emailed to Kenai River guides.

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    Sockeye salmon are gathered together at a test site for selective harvest setnet gear in Kenai, Alaska, on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    Days expanded for commercial dipnet fishery
    By Jacob Dye • March 31, 2025 10:30 am

    The fishery will be allowed to operate from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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    Rep. Sarah Vance, R-Homer, participates in a candidate forum hosted by the Peninsula Clarion and KBBI 890 AM at the Homer Public Library in Homer, Alaska, on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    Vance calls on board of fish to clarify...
    By Jacob Dye • March 27, 2025 1:30 am

    One board member said he wanted to see no setnets or drifters operating in the inlet at all.

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Tournament champion Zach Weimann holds up his first-place trophy during the 2025 Homer Winter King Salmon Tournament on Saturday.
    Weimann wins fishing tournament championship
    By Delcenia Cosman • March 24, 2025 1:30 am

    The 31st annual Homer Winter King Tournament saw high turnout Saturday.

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    Chris Keithley, 2024 Homer Winter King Salmon Tournament champion, poses with his prize fish after the awards ceremony at the Deep Water Dock on the Spit in Homer, Alaska on Saturday, March 23, 2024. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)
    Winter King Tournament scheduled for March 22
    By Delcenia Cosman • March 10, 2025 1:30 am

    This year’s event will be held at the Deep Water Dock at 4667 Freight Dock Road.

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    Lisa Gabriel, left, watches as beach seine nets are pulled from the waters of Cook Inlet at a test site for the gear near Kenai, Alaska, on Tuesday, July 30, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    CFEC to consider seines for east side setnet...
    By Jacob Dye • February 20, 2025 1:30 am

    The change is contingent on the State Board of Fisheries approving the gear during their March meeting.

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    An 86 pound Kenai River king salmon is measured in Soldotna, Alaska, on June 29, 1995. (M. Scott Moon/Peninsula Clarion File)
    Kenai River king salmon fishing closed entirely for...
    By Jacob Dye • February 13, 2025 1:30 am

    Kenai River king salmon were designated a stock of management concern in 2023.

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    Alexis Alamillo, of Anchorage, carries a sockeye salmon caught in a dipnet from the mouth of the Kenai River in Kenai, Alaska, on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    Fish and Game projects 7 million sockeye for...
    By Jacob Dye • January 30, 2025 1:30 am

    Nearly 7 million sockeye salmon are projected to run in Upper Cook Inlet this year, with a forecast from the…

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    Sockeye salmon caught in a set gillnet are dragged up onto the beach at a test site for selective harvest setnet gear in Kenai, Alaska, on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    Borough accepts fishery disaster funds, calls for proclamation...
    By Jacob Dye • January 16, 2025 1:30 am

    The funding stems from fishery disasters that were first recognized and allocated in 2022.

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    Opinion: Get industry lobbyists out of Alaska fisheries...
    By Eric Forrer • January 2, 2025 1:30 am

    Alaska has a governor who habitually makes appointments to governing boards of individuals who have what should be disqualifying conflicts…

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    The Anchor River flows in the Anchor Point State Recreation Area on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023 in Anchor Point, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)
    Trout Unlimited to host presentation on steelhead findings...
    By Jacob Dye • January 2, 2025 1:30 am

    The event is set for 6 p.m. at the Goods on Tuesday, Jan. 7

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    Lisa Gabriel, a member of the Kenai Peninsula Fishermen’s Association Board of Directors, speaks to the Soldotna City Council in Soldotna, Alaska, on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    Soldotna calls for disaster proclamation in 2024 east...
    By Jacob Dye • December 26, 2024 1:30 am

    The governor has recognized economic disasters for local fisheries in 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023

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    Lisa Gabriel, left, watches as beach seine nets are pulled from the waters of Cook Inlet at a test site for the gear near Kenai, Alaska, on Tuesday, July 30, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    Board of Fish to consider set beach seines...
    By Jacob Dye • November 7, 2024 1:30 am

    Seines were tested on local beaches this summer in effort helmed by Lisa and Brian Gabriel

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