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Emergency Orders and News Releases - Southcentral
Sport Fishing

Date Area Summary Action
07/21/17 Expires 08/09/17 Kodiak Chignik River King Salmon Sport Fishery Closed Closure
07/17/17 Expires 12/31/17 Kodiak Saltery Cove Drainage Sockeye Salmon Bag And Possession Limit Increased Liberalization
07/12/17 Expired 07/16/17 Southern Kenai Nick Dudiak Fishing Lagoon Open To Snagging July 14 - July 16 Liberalization
07/12/17 Expires 12/31/17 Bristol Bay Alagnak River Sockeye Salmon Sport Fishing Limits Increased Liberalization
07/12/17 Expires 02/28/18 Southern Kenai Tanner Crab Board Of Fishery Changes And Fishery Updates Liberalization
07/12/17 Expires 08/09/17 Kodiak Chignik River King Salmon Sport Fishery Limited To Catch-and-release Restriction
07/12/17 Southcentral Regulation Summary Booklet Correction For Jim Creek
07/12/17 Northern Kenai Sockeye Salmon Limits For Russian/upper Kenai River Area Return To Three Per Day, Six In Possession July 15
07/11/17 Expires 07/31/17 Anchorage Ship Creek King Salmon Season Extended Through July 31, 2017, Bag And Possession Limit Increased To Two Fish Liberalization
07/06/17 Expires 12/31/17 Bristol Bay Wood River Sockeye Salmon Sport Fishing Limits Increased Liberalization
06/30/17 Expired 07/13/17 Mat-Su Susitna River Drainage Closes To Sport Fishing For King Salmon Restriction
06/30/17 Expires 07/31/17 Resurrection Bay Bag Limits Increased For Resurrection Bay Salt Water Sockeye Salmon Liberalization
06/30/17 Northern Kenai 2017 Kenai River Late-run King Salmon Preseason Projection And Sport Fishery Regulations
06/30/17 Statewide Illegally Dumped Fish Waste Can Draw Bears, Fines For Violators
06/29/17 Expired 07/13/17 Mat-Su Little Susitna River Closed To Fishing For King Salmon Restriction
06/29/17 Expires 12/31/17 Bristol Bay Nushagak-mulchatna Drainage Sockeye Salmon Sport Fishing Limits Increased Liberalization
06/23/17 Expired 07/14/17 Northern Kenai Russian River Sanctuary Open To Fishing And Russian/ Upper Kenai River Sockeye Salmon Limits To Increase Liberalization
06/23/17 Expired 07/14/17 Northern Kenai Russian River Sanctuary Open To Fishing And Russian/ Upper Kenai River Sockeye Salmon Limits To Increase Liberalization
06/22/17 Expired 07/13/17 Mat-Su Little Susitna River Closed To Fishing For King Salmon, Except Two Weekends In July Restriction
06/21/17 Expired 07/13/17 Mat-Su Deshka River Closed To Use Of Bait Restriction
06/21/17 Expires 12/31/17 Bristol Bay Nushagak-mulchatna Drainage King Salmon Sport Fishing Limits Reduced Restriction
06/21/17 Anchorage Campbell Creek Youth-only King Salmon Fishery June 24 And June 25
06/20/17 Expired 06/30/17 Northern Kenai Bait Allowed Below Slikok Creek For Kenai River Early-run King Salmon Liberalization
06/20/17 Expires 12/31/17 Statewide Alaska Invasive Species Awareness Week
06/15/17 Anchorage Youth-only Fisheries In Three Locations In Southcentral This Weekend
06/15/17 Mat-Su Youth-only Fisheries In Three Locations In Southcentral This Weekend
06/15/17 Resurrection Bay Youth-only Fisheries In Three Locations In Southcentral This Weekend
06/12/17 Expired 06/30/17 Northern Kenai Kenai River Early-run King Salmon Maximum Size Limit Increases Below Slikok Creek Liberalization
06/09/17 Bristol Bay Catch And Release Mortality To Be Estimated For Nushagak Drainage King Salmon
06/07/17 Kodiak First Full King Salmon Returns To Salonie Creek Coming Soon
06/06/17 Expires 12/31/17 Kodiak Karluk River Drainage Sockeye Salmon Bag And Possession Limit Increased Liberalization
06/06/17 Expires 12/31/17 Kodiak Buskin River Drainage Sockeye Salmon Limits Increased Liberalization
05/31/17 Southern Kenai Youth-only Fishing Days Homer Spit, Saturday, June 3, 2017, And Ninilchik River, Wednesday, June 7, 2017
05/19/17 Southcentral Regulation Summary Booklet Correction For Goose Creek
05/04/17 Northern Kenai Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Salmon Celebration Scheduled For May 11th
04/04/17 Expired 06/30/17 Northern Kenai 2017 Kenai River Early-run King Salmon Preseason Total Run Projection And 2017 Early-run King Salmon Sport Fishery Regulations
03/31/17 Kodiak Changes To Kodiak Area Sport Fishing Regulations
03/24/17 Expires 09/15/17 Prince William Sound Number Of Allowable Pots Reduced In 2017 Prince William Sound Sport And Subsistence Shrimp Pot Fishery Restriction
03/24/17 Expired 07/13/17 Mat-Su 2017 King Salmon Sport Fishing Annual Limit Restrictions For Little Susitna River Closure
03/24/17 Expired 07/13/17 Mat-Su 2017 King Salmon Sport Fishing Restrictions For Unit 1 of The Susitna River, Except The Deshka, With Certain Other Restrictions In Unit 4 Closure
03/24/17 Expired 07/13/17 Mat-Su 2017 King Salmon Sport Fishing Restrictions For Eastside Susitna River Tributaries And Certain Units Of The Susitna River Closure
03/23/17 Anchorage Changes To Anchorage Area Sport Fishing Regulations
03/23/17 Mat-Su New Sport Fishing Regulations For Northern Cook Inlet Sport Fisheries In 2017
03/23/17 Northern Kenai New Sport/personal Use Fishing Regulations For Kenai River And Northern Kenai Peninsula Area In 2017
03/13/17 Expires 08/01/17 Kodiak Monashka Creek And Monashka Bay Closed To Sport Fishing For King Salmon Closure
03/13/17 Expires 07/25/17 Kodiak Karluk River Closed To Sport Fishing For King Salmon Closure
03/13/17 Expires 07/25/17 Kodiak Ayakulik River King Salmon Sport Fishery Catch-and-release Only Restriction
02/22/17 Northern Kenai Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Ice Fishing Activity Scheduled For February 23rd And 24th At Sport Lake And March 2nd At Johnson Lake
02/15/17 Statewide Division Of Sport Fish Launches Email Subscription Service
02/06/17 Anchorage Anchorage School District Students Learn Ice Fishing Skills At Annual Event Starting February 7th
01/03/17 Statewide Sport Fish Stocking Plan Available For COMMENT
12/28/16 Expires 12/31/17 Southern Kenai Eastside Cook Inlet Beaches Remain Closed To Sport Clamming Closure
12/28/16 Expires 12/31/17 Southern Kenai Eastside Cook Inlet Beaches Remain Closed To Personal Use Clamming Closure
12/28/16 Expires 12/31/17 Northern Kenai Retention Of Arctic CHAR/dolly Varden Prohibited At Stormy Lake In 2017 Restriction
12/28/16 Expires 12/31/17 Northern Kenai 2017 Ice Fishing Restrictions In East And West MACKEY, UNION, And Derks Lakes Restriction
12/28/16 Southern Kenai New Sport Fishing Regulations Adopted For Lower Cook Inlet Fisheries In 2017