Contact:
Tom Taube
Management Coordinator
Phone: 907-822-3309

A weekly fishing period for the Batzulnetas area subsistence salmon fishery has been established.   The weekly fishing period will be 48-hours in duration from 12:00 noon Friday to 12:00 noon Sunday, each week beginning Friday June 2, 2006.  Beginning on Saturday July 1, the weekly fishing period will be increased to 84-hours in duration from 12:00 noon Friday to 11:59 P.M. Monday each week through September 1, or until closed by emergency order.

As a reminder, the Copper River Subsistence Salmon Fisheries Management Plan states that in the Batzulnetas area subsistence salmon fishery:

·        Salmon may be taken only under the authority of a Batzulnetas subsistence salmon fishing permit issued by the ADF&G.

·        Salmon may be taken only in those waters of the Copper River between ADF&G regulatory markers located near the mouth of Tanada Creek and approximately one-half mile downstream from that mouth and in Tanada Creek between ADF&G regulatory markers identifying the open waters of the creek.

·        Chinook salmon caught must be released to the water unharmed; fish wheels must be equipped with a live box or be monitored at all times.

·        The permit must be returned to the department’s Glennallen office no later than September 30 of each year.

DISTRIBUTION:

Office of the Governor; Lt. Governor; Commissioner, Department of Fish and Game; Director, Division of Sport Fish; Regional Supervisors, Division of Sport and Commercial Fisheries; Members of Board of Fisheries; Director, Fish and Wildlife Protection; Detachment Commander and Area Officer, Local Fish and Game Advisory Chairman; Cook Inlet, Prince William Sound and Glennallen Area Biologists, Division of Sport Fish and Commercial Fisheries; Juneau, Region I; Fairbanks, Region III; and selected area newspapers, radio and television stations.