The dipnet fishery will be open 24 hours a day starting today.
A record number of sockeye salmon passed through the sonar on the Kasilof River Thursday. — a new daily record for the run, according to Brian Marston, Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s area manager for Upper Cook Inlet commercial fisheries. The surge brings the sockeye run on the Kasilof to 568,703 fish this run.
While the Kenai River didn’t hit a daily record that day, Marston said it was the eighth highest daily count recorded since 1979. Wednesday. Over 519,247 late-run sockeye have been recorded in the river so far this run — bringing the department halfway to its in-river goal for the run of 1.1 to 1.4 million sockeye. The Kenai River run historically peaks in early August.
Meanwhile, Fish and Game is loosening limits on the personal-use and sport fisheries on the Kenai so anglers can get after those large numbers of sockeye. Starting Friday, anglers on the Kenai can catch six sockeye per day and possess 12.The sockeye run on the Kenai has surpassed the upper limits of the department’s goals for the previous several seasons. Last year, over 2.4 million sockeye passed through the sonar,Anglers are not allowed to catch king salmon.
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