Dip netting for red salmon in the Copper River is still reported to be slow and an extended closure of the commercial fishery in Cordova will result in decreased fishing time for dip-netters later this month, area management biologist Mark Somerville at ADF&G in Glennallen said.
The Chitina dip net fishery will remain open through July 13 but after that there will almost certainly be reductions in fishing time. The extended closure of Cordova’s commercial fishing fleet, which reached 13 days on Tuesday, triggered a reduction in harvest for the personal-use fishery, Somerville said.
As of Tuesday, the commercial fishing fleet had been shut down for 13 straight days and the sonar count at Miles Lake still had not caught up to preseason projections. The sonar counts did not go up as expected with commercial fishers out of the water...
http://newsminer.com/news/2008/jul/03/dip-netters-face-cuts-fishing-time-chitina/
See also Alaska sockeye salmon fishing
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