Contact:
Dan Teske
Juneau Assistant Area Management Biologist
Phone: (907) 465-8152

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced today that sport fishing regulations for hatchery king salmon will be liberalized in a designated saltwater harvest area near Juneau (see attached map). These new regulations are intended to provide additional opportunity to harvest hatchery king salmon returning to the Juneau area. 

The hatchery king salmon regulations in the designated terminal harvest area will be in effect from 12:01 a.m. Saturday, June 1 through Saturday, August 31, 2013. The new regulations are as follows:

• The daily bag and possession limit is four king salmon of any size;
• King salmon harvested by nonresidents do not count toward the annual limit.

Anglers should note that regional bag, possession and size limits for king salmon in the salt waters outside of the designated terminal harvest area are more restrictive; and, that regulations prohibit anglers from possessing fish that exceed the limits for the waters where they are fishing. Therefore, anglers who catch king salmon within the designated terminal harvest area may not continue to fish outside of the designated area if they possess king salmon that do not comply with the regional king salmon bag, possession and size limits.

King salmon sport fishing regulations for freshwater drainages on the Juneau road system will also be liberalized as described in a separate news release.

For additional information contact the Division of Sport Fish Region 1 office in Douglas at (907) 465-4270.
 

The designated Juneau terminal harvest area is defined as the contiguous marine waters of the Auke Bay area, Fritz Cove, and Gastineau Channel that are bound on the west side by a line that extends from Point Louisa to the navigational aid at the northern tip of Portland Island, along the eastern shore of Portland Island to its southernmost tip and then to the tip of Outer Point on Douglas Island. The eastern boundary of the THA is a line, indicated by department markers on the east and west shores of Gastineau Channel, extending across Gastineau Channel approximately ¼ mile south of the Dupont Dock.