Contact:
Audra Brase
Tanana Drainage Area Management Biologist
Phone: 907-459-7244

200 household permits for the 2012 Chatanika River Personal Use Whitefish Spear Fishery will be issued on a first come, first served basis from the Fairbanks Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) office located at 1300 College Road beginning Monday,
August 20.

Only one permit will be issued per household. Permit applicants must be Alaska residents and have a valid resident sport fishing license.

Each household permit authorizes a harvest of 10 whitefish in that portion of the Chatanika River from the downstream side of the Elliott Highway Bridge to ADF&G markers located at the Trans-Alaska Pipeline crossing (approximately 7 river miles downriver from the bridge).

The 2012 Chatanika River Personal Use Whitefish Spear Fishery will be open from September 21 through October 21.

Questions should be directed to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game – Division of Sport Fish, Fairbanks Regional Office: 907-459-7244.