Emergency Orders and Press Releases
Mat-Su

Date Area Summary Action
11/08/23 Expires 12/15/23 Mat-Su Anchorage 2023 Season Sport Fishery Town Hall Style Meeting –Reschedule
10/20/23 Statewide Alaska Department Of Fish And Game Will Begin Mailing Annual Sport Fishing Surveys
10/17/23 Expires 12/08/23 Mat-Su 2023 Season Sport Fishery Town Hall Style Meeting
08/31/23 Expired 10/31/23 Statewide Photos Sought For The 2024 Sport Fishing Regulations Summary Books
08/30/23 Expires 02/29/24 Mat-Su Cook Inlet And North Gulf Coast Sport And Subsistence Tanner Crab Permits Available September 18.
08/16/23 Expires 12/31/23 Mat-Su Jim Creek Closed To Salmon Fishing Closure
08/16/23 Expired 09/30/23 Mat-Su Little Susitna River Closed To Coho Salmon Fishing Closure
08/15/23 Expired 09/30/23 Mat-Su Deshka River Closed To Retention Of Coho Salmon; Other Susitna River Streams Remain At One Coho Salmon Bag Limit Closure
08/15/23 Expires 12/31/23 Mat-Su Little Susitna River Coho Salmon Bag And Possession Limit Reduced To One Fish Restriction
08/10/23 Expired 09/30/23 Mat-Su Susitna River Coho Salmon Bag Limits Reduced To One Fish Restriction
08/10/23 Expired 09/30/23 Mat-Su Bait Prohibited In The Little Susitna River Sport Fishery Restriction
08/03/23 Expired 08/15/23 Mat-Su Online Harvest Reporting Required For Upper Cook Inlet Personal Use Salmon Permit
08/03/23 Expired 08/07/23 Mat-Su Fish Creek Youth-Only Fishery Opens Saturday And Sunday, August 5-6
08/02/23 Expired 08/06/23 Mat-Su Youth-Only Coho Salmon Fishery At The Nick Dudiak Fishing Lagoon On The Homer Spit
07/31/23 Expired 08/11/23 Mat-Su Fish Creek Sport Fishery Open 7 Days Per Week With Increased Sockeye Salmon Limits Liberalization
07/20/23 Expired 07/31/23 Mat-Su Fish Creek Personal Use Dipnet Fishery Opens 6 A.M. July 22 Opening
07/11/23 Southcentral /
Mat-Su 		Illegally Dumped Fish Waste Can Draw Bears, Fines For Violators
07/10/23 Expired 07/29/23 Mat-Su Anderson Creek (Lower Susitna River) Closed To Dipnetting Closure
07/05/23 Expired 10/31/23 Mat-Su Proposals Sought For The 2024 Mat-Su Valley Habitat Rehabilitation & Protection Cost-Share Program
07/03/23 Expired 07/13/23 Mat-Su Little Susitna River Drainage Closed To Sport Fishing For King Salmon Closure
06/14/23 Expired 06/18/23 Mat-Su Eklutna And Ship Creek Youth-Only King Salmon Fisheries On Saturday, June 17
04/13/23 Expires 12/31/23 Mat-Su Rockfish Bag And Possession Limits Reduced In Cook Inlet And North Gulf Coast/Resurrection Bay Salt Waters Restriction
03/02/23 Expired 07/31/23 Mat-Su Sport Fishing For King Salmon Closed In Cook Inlet Salt Waters Closure
03/02/23 Expired 07/13/23 Mat-Su Little Susitna River King Salmon Restricted To Catch-And-Release Restriction
03/02/23 Expired 06/30/23 Mat-Su West Cook Inlet Fresh Waters Closed To King Salmon Fishing Closure
03/02/23 Expired 07/13/23 Mat-Su King Salmon Restrictions In The Susitna River Drainages Closure
01/05/23 Expired 01/31/23 Statewide 2023 Statewide Sport Fish Stocking Plan Open For Public Comment
12/20/22 Expires 12/31/23 Mat-Su Five Stocked Lakes To Open To Fishing In The Matanuska-Susitna Valley Opening
12/20/22 Expires 12/31/23 Mat-Su Retention Of Arctic Char/Dolly Varden Prohibited In Fish Creek (Big Lake) Drainage Restriction