Contact:
Kelly Reppert
Assistant Area Management Biologist
Phone: (907) 225-2859
June 30, 2006
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Sport Fish announced today that saltwater areas of Herring Cove will open to residents for a personal use drift gillnet fishery (no anchoring of net and/or boats attached to net) targeting surplus king salmon returning to SSRAA’s Whitman Lake hatchery located on upper Herring Cove Creek. The waters open for this fishery are Herring Cove west of a line running from the southern entrance of Hole-In-The –Wall harbor to an un-named creek 1/8 mile north of Whitman Creek (Signed and red painted rocks) to the fresh/saltwater boundary signs (signed and green painted rocks) located at the mouth of Herring Cove Creek (see attached map).
The fishery will open 12:01 A.M. Saturday, July 1 and close 11:59 P.M. Monday, July 31, 2006. Permits are required and available at the ADF&G Commercial Fisheries Division office in
Legal gear is limited to drift gillnet 10 fathoms (60 feet) or less in length. There are no restrictions on the size of the gillnet mesh. Personal use participants in this fishery are required to possess a valid sport fishing license but are not required to possess a king salmon tag.
The bag limit for king salmon in this fishery is 50 fish with no size limit restrictions. The maximum number of other salmon that may be incidentally taken is 6 coho, 12 sockeye, 150 pink, and 25 chum salmon.
Fishermen are reminded that sport-taken and personal use taken king salmon may not be possessed on the same day.
Anyone needing additional information should call the