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The next lower Kuskokwim River gillnet opening is meant to target sockeye salmon. Set nets will be allowed below the Kalskag Bluffs on Saturday, July 16 from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. ....
The next gillnet opening for lower Kuskokwim River waters, from the mouth upstream to the Kalskag Bluffs, is scheduled for June 22 from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. ....
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. ....
Credit Katie Basile / KYUK The entire Kuskokwim River will open full-time to subsistence fishing with gillnets beginning at 12:01 a.m. on July 31. At that time, gillnet restrictions on the river will be liberalized to include any size mesh, and nets can stretch up to 50 fathoms in length. Data from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game shows that king, chum, and sockeye salmon have almost entirely passed Bethel, and coho is now the dominant salmon species in the lower Kuskokwim. The Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, in consultation with the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, instated gillnet restrictions on June 1 to conserve king salmon. As the summer progressed, conservation concerns extended to the river’s record low chum salmon run. ....