Contact:
Kristine Dunker
Fisheries Biologist
Phone: (907) 267-2889

Upper Cook Inlet personal use dipnet and set-gillnet permit holders are reminded that August 15 is the deadline to report 2015 Upper Cook Inlet personal use salmon fishery harvests to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. This is for dipnetting at the Kenai and Kasilof rivers and Fish Creek and for set-gillnetting at the Kasilof River. 

Participants in these personal use fisheries are required by law to report their harvests even if they did not fish, or even if they fished but caught nothing. Compliance with the permit requirements is important to future management of the Upper Cook Inlet personal use fisheries. 

All participants are encouraged to report their harvest information online at http://fish.alaska.gov/pu, whether they obtained an electronic or paper permit.  The deadline to report harvest for Upper Cook Inlet is August 15th.  From a smart phone or tablet device, the harvest reporting website can be easily accessed by scanning the QR code on the permit.  The harvest reporting process is quickest for participants who obtained their permits electronically.  Participants with paper permits will have to enter their license numbers and household information before reporting harvest data while this information will populate automatically for participants with electronic permits. Once a participant submits harvest data online they cannot go back and edit their previous records.  However, they can log back into their permit and add additional harvest data.  Once harvest data have been submitted, a confirmation e-mail will be sent to the participant.  Participants opting to report their harvest information online are NOT required to also return their physical permit copies.  Though online harvest reporting is encouraged, participants not wanting to use the online system can also mail or hand-deliver their filled out permits to ADF&G. 

If returning paper permits to the Department, permit holders are asked to review all the information on the permit for legibility and accuracy. If no one in the household went personal use fishing, please answer “NO” for the question “Did you fish for personal use in 2015?” and return the permit to ADF&G.

Permits can be mailed to the department with appropriate postage; the address is printed on the back of the permit. Permits may also be delivered to local ADF&G offices during regular business hours.

In cases where permits have been lost or are too damaged to go through the mail, online harvest reporting is, again, encouraged. However, permit holders may mail a letter that includes your name, mailing address, 2015 sport fishing license number, Alaska driver’s license number and names of the household members listed on the original permit. Please include an accounting of the dates and location(s) the permit was fished and the species and number of fish retained, including flounder. On dates where dipnetting or personal-use set-netting occurred but no fish were caught, include the dates and locations, and write “zero.” Mail the letter to:

Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Personal Use Salmon Permits
333 Raspberry Road
Anchorage, Alaska 99518-1599

For more information, contact the Anchorage Sport Fish Information Center at (907) 267-2218 or Kristine Dunker, Fisheries Biologist in Anchorage at (907) 267-2889.