Scientists are studying whether changes in water temperature may have played a role.
Ship Creek near downtown Anchorage, normally full of people fishing for salmon, is empty in mid-September. The creek is closed to all sport fishing until Sept. 30, 2024. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game emergency order went into effect on August 24,"In favor of protecting coho salmon and future fishing opportunities." Photographed on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024.
Ship Creek near downtown Anchorage is closed to all sport fishing until Sept. 30, 2024. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game emergency order went into effect on August 24,"In favor of protecting coho salmon and future fishing opportunities." Photographed on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. for coho fishing beginning in late summer across the entire Susitna River drainage, northern Cook Inlet and Anchorage.
The William Jack Hernandez Sport Fish Hatchery at Ship Creek, which is operated by Fish and Game, is the only hatchery in Cook Inlet producing coho salmon. Average returns to the mouth of the creek are an estimated 7,000 fish, of which an average of 4,500 are caught by sport fishermen and 2,500 make their way back up the creek. Some of those stay in the creek, and others enter brood holding raceways at the hatchery, said Chuck Pratt, sport fish hatchery program supervisor.
Angler Jeremy Salvador makes a cut while cleaning and filleting three coho salmon that he caught at Ship Creek near downtown Anchorage on Tuesday, July 30, 2024. “The coho are like the caribou of the marine population,” she said. “Sometimes you see ‘em, sometimes you don’t. They’re magic.”
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