With the second driftnet opener of the 2023 season nearly past, enforcement officers with the Alaska Wildlife Troopers and Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge said that violations have been relatively minimal.
On May 26, 2023 state fisheries managers announced they were closing the Yukon River to salmon fishing in early June. On May 31, state fisheries biologists and troopers flew to communities on the Y-K Delta to talk about the closures and about enforcement.