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ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME
Sam Cotten, Commissioner

DIVISION OF SPORT FISH
Tom Brookover, Director

Contact:
Matt Miller
Management Coordinator
Phone: 907-267-2415

May 26, 2015

2015 SOUTHCENTRAL ALASKA SPORT FISHING REGULATION BOOKLET ERRORS AND CLARIFICATION

Southcentral anglers are advised that errors are present in the 2015 Southcentral Alaska Sport fishing Regulations Summary Booklet.  ADF&G has identified inadvertent errors in the printed copy of the 2015 regulation booklet. The following errors have been corrected in the online version and the Department apologizes for any inconvenience caused by the errors in the printed copy. 

Southcentral Alaska Guiding Regulations

Guided sport fishing regulations can be found on our website at: www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/regulations/fishregulations/PDFs/southcentral/2015SCguide_supplement.pdf

Lower Cook Inlet, Homer

Cook Inlet Salt Waters Special Regulations for the early run king salmon area on page 20. The inclusive water statement was omitted, but should have been included.  Inclusive waters for the Special Harvest Areas and Conservation Zone are all marine waters south of the latitude of the mouth of the Ninilchik River (60o 03.99’ N) to the latitude of Bluff Point (59o 40’ N) and within 1 mile of shore. 

Northern Cook Inlet, Palmer

Page 44: Eklutna Tailrace Youth-Only King and Coho Fisheries are from 6:00a.m. – 6:00p.m.
Northern Kenai Peninsula, Soldotna

• Page 66 and 67 under Russian River: The first box for section A on page 66 and the first box for section C on page 67 incorrectly states the season date for sockeye salmon 16 inches or longer is June 1 - June 30.  For both sections A and C the correct season dates for sockeye salmon 16 inches or longer is June 11 - June 30.
• Russian River on page 67, section C incorrectly states coho salmon season is August 21 through October 31.  The coho salmon season in Section C is open through September 30 and closed October 1 through June 30. 

Anchorage/Resurrection Bay/ PWS, Anchorage

Page 82 under Freshwater Special Regulations: In Copper River Highway streams, the sentence after the first bullet point under “Coho salmon” should read: “August 15-September 15: After harvesting a bag limit of coho salmon, a person may not sport fish with bait for the rest of that day in these waters”. The “16 inches greater in length” does not apply to this fishery.
To review the corrected online versions of the 2015 Southcentral Alaska Sport Fishing Regulation Summary Booklet visit our website at:  http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=fishregulations.sc_sportfish