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No gillnet openings have been announced for the lower Kuskokwim River after the opening on June 16. The 12-hour opening runs 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. from the river’s mouth, upstream to Aniak. The waters upstream of Aniak opened to gillnets full-time on June 12.
The group discussed how to continue to provide subsistence opportunities despite low Chinook counts so far on the lower river.
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Wise River evacuations continue as Alder Creek Fire spreads and last updated 2021-07-19 21:26:10-04 WISE RIVER - Smoke is blanketing the Wise River area from the Alder Creek Fire burning just seven miles west of town, and the Type One fire crew in command has increased its manpower and resources and is getting ready for a long, hard fight. âWeâre getting more resources in, so weâre building our ability to work on this fire,â said Southern Area Incident Management Spokesperson Todd Schroeder. The fire was first reported on July 8 and grew to the point that dozens of homes i...
During the July 14 Kuskokwim River Salmon Management Working Group meeting, state fishery biologist Sean Larson showed a graph representing the chum run so far this season. It was basically a flat line. “So the story remains the same for chum. It's an incredibly small run,” Larson said. It’s the smallest chum run ever recorded for the river. During the July 14 working group meeting, Larson said that the chum escapement looked to be about a quarter of what it was at this point last year, and last year was a low, late chum run. On the bright side, numbers for sockeye, or red, salmo...