Contact:
Craig Schwanke
Assistant Area Management Biologist
Phone: (907) 842-2427

Because of a recent inseason projection exceeding 2 million red salmon, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is rescinding Emergency Order 2-RS-5-02-06 and the bag limit for red salmon increases from two fish to five fish per day in all waters of the Kvichak River / Lake Iliamna drainage, in compliance with the “Kvichak River Sockeye Salmon Management Plan.”  The bag limit increase applies to the waters of the Kvichak, Newhalen, and Tazimina rivers and their tributaries, and lakes Clark, Sixmile, Iliamna, and all other tributaries into these lakes.

In addition, the following waters will reopen to sport fishing for red salmon:

1.       Alexey Creek and all waters within 150 yards of its confluence with the Newhalen River;

2.       The waters of Sixmile Lake and one-quarter mile downstream of Sixmile Lake in the Newhalen River and the lower one-quarter mile of the Tazimina River;

3.       All waters within one-half-mile of the confluence of the Gibraltar River with Lake Iliamna; and

4.       The waters of the Kvichak River adjacent to the community of Igiugig as posted between ADF&G regulatory markers.

For more information, call the ADF&G Dillingham Area Office at (907) 842-2427, or the Dillingham recorded telephone hotline at (907) 842-REGS (842-7347).