ADF&G said it will continue to monitor escapement numbers but does not anticipate easing the restrictions.
Anglers fish for coho salmon from the muddy banks of Ship Creek during an incoming tide on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. The emergency order is effective 12:01 a.m. on Saturday and covers the creek from its mouth upstream to a cable 100 feet downstream of the Chugach power plant dam.
“Only 181 coho salmon were counted during a survey of Ship Creek near the hatchery on August 19,” area sport fishing management biologist Brittany Blain-Roth said in a written statement. “Typically, on average, we count around 800 coho salmon in the same section of creek during this week, and at this point every coho salmon counts.”
The action continues a trend of responses to this summer’s poor coho, or silver salmon, run in Southcentral. On Aug. 12, Fish and Gamethe bag limit for coho 16 inches or longer caught in fresh waters of the Kenai Peninsula would be reduced from two to one. That order is also effective 12:01 a.m. Saturday and runs through the end of the year.
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