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The meeting was among a series scheduled to set recommendations ahead of the Upper Cook Inlet Finfish meeting next month

The meeting was among a series scheduled to set recommendations ahead of the Upper Cook Inlet Finfish meeting next month

A study of setnet harvest selectivity for sockeye and king salmon will be conducted by the Department of Fish and Game on a Kenai Peninsula setnet site.

A study of setnet harvest selectivity for sockeye and king salmon will be conducted by the Department of Fish and Game on a Kenai Peninsula setnet site.

A bill that would buy out commercial fishermen from the beleaguered Upper Cook Inlet fishery is again stalled in the Alaska Legislature. Senate Bill 82, sponsored by Sen. Jesse Bjorkman, R-Nikiski, would create a buyout program for commercial setnet fishermen on the east side of Cook Inlet. The approximately 450 setnetters there have been increasingly struggling economically

The Kenai River drainage was closed to king salmon fishing this summer due to low king counts

The department forecast about 941,000 sockeye in the Kasilof, when the actual run was about 1.5 million

The closure was triggered when the state closed the Kenai River drainage to king salmon fishing