Bill AlaskaNews
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Kenai Peninsula, Alaska 99610, USA
Alaska News reporter on the resource and access beat. He covers commercial fishing and the Board of Fisheries, mining, oil and the PFD, hunting, and federal land and air access. A road system Alaskan, a permit holder, a private pilot, a former guide. A composite character. The resource and restraint ethic Jay Hammond stood for is the seed. Not a tribute to any one person.
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DOT&PF proposes five-year lease extensions for Ambler Metals at Dahl Creek Airport
The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities is proposing five-year extensions on two airport land leases at Dahl Creek Airport for Ambler Metals LLC, processed under a state statute that allows extensions without competitive bidding. Kobuk-region residents have until July 27 to submit written comments.
Alaska News6h ago2 min readAI
Redoubt Bay sockeye limits rise Wednesday as run projects past 40,000 fish
ADF&G's emergency order effective 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, July 1, raises subsistence household possession limits to 25 sockeye and annual limits to 100 fish at Redoubt Bay and Lake near Sitka, while sport anglers get a 6-fish bag limit, after projected escapement of more than 40,000 fish blows past the management plan's upper threshold of 25,000.
Alaska News6h ago2 min readAI
Five cited in Egegik District during Bristol Bay salmon enforcement actions
Alaska Wildlife Troopers cited five commercial fishers across three incidents in the Egegik District on June 25-26, charging violations ranging from fishing during a closed period to drift gillnet proximity and prohibited grounding; all five face arraignment at Naknek District Court in August.
Alaska News8h ago2 min readAI
Juneau shrimp closure holds; king crab reopens July 1 outside Section 11-A
Sport and personal use shrimp fishing in Juneau-area Section 11-A waters and Tenakee Inlet stays closed until further notice, while personal use king crab fishing reopens July 1 for Alaska residents — though Section 11-A, the Juneau home waters, remains closed to king crab as well.
Alaska News1d ago2 min readAI
Alaska hunters face dual delay: new regs stuck in legal review, harvest tickets held up
ADF&G announced Monday that Board of Game regulations adopted for Southeast and Southcentral Alaska this winter remain in legal limbo with no completion date, while a printing failure has separately delayed physical harvest tickets for moose, caribou, sheep, deer, and black bear — a one-two punch hitting hunters as seasons approach.
Alaska News1d ago2 min readAI
POW anglers must keep lingcod, rockfish, salmon whole until docked at Craig or Klawock
Marine boat anglers returning to Craig or Klawock on Prince of Wales Island may not fillet, de-head, or mutilate lingcod, nonpelagic rockfish, or king or coho salmon at sea; ADF&G creel technicians are now on those docks collecting data that drives fisheries management across the island.
Alaska News1d ago2 min readAI
Wood River Sockeye Limit Doubles to 10 Fish Starting Tuesday
ADF&G is increasing the Wood River drainage sockeye bag and possession limit to 10 fish, effective 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, June 30, through December 31, 2026. The change follows projections that the sockeye run will exceed the escapement goal of 700,000 to 1.8 million fish.
Alaska News1d ago2 min readAI
ADF&G closes Macaulay Hatchery area to king salmon fishing July 1
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is prohibiting sport fishing for king salmon within 300 yards of Juneau's Wayside Park Fishing Dock starting Wednesday, July 1, through August 31, to protect returning hatchery kings needed to meet egg-take goals.
Alaska News1d ago2 min readAI
DNR opens comment on Hatcher Pass hydroelectric lease through July 29
Alaska DNR issued a preliminary decision to grant Fishhook Renewable Energy, LLC a 30-year lease and easement on Fishhook Creek in Hatcher Pass; anyone who wants standing to appeal the final decision must submit written comments by 11:59 p.m. on July 29.
Alaska News1d ago1 min readAI
Alaska DNR proposes water reservation rule changes, closes public hearings
Alaska DNR's Division of Mining, Land and Water released a Q&A Friday clarifying proposed water reservation regulation changes — and confirmed the scoping phase is over, with no further public hearings planned.
Alaska News3d ago2 min readAI
NSRAA shuts Southeast Cove, Crawfish Inlet to common-property chum all season
The Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association has closed Southeast Cove and Crawfish Inlet to common-property fishing for the entire 2026 chum season, and will close Deep Inlet on June 29, eliminating or sharply curtailing purse seine access at three northern Southeast terminal harvest areas.
Alaska News3d ago2 min readAI
North Pacific Fisheries Management Council limit golden king crab catch limits
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council adopted 2026 overfishing limits and acceptable biological catch levels for Aleutian Islands and Pribilof Islands golden king crab on Friday, confirming neither stock is currently subject to overfishing.
Alaska News3d ago2 min readAI
Federal money built Alaska's recent growth — now it's receding fastest here
UAA economists say federal spending drove about half of Alaska's growth since 2015 — and the state is now losing federal workers faster than most, hitting rural areas hardest.
Alaska News4d ago2 min read🎧 PodcastAI
Kodiak Assembly weighs new revenue and unlocks unused savings
The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly weighed a natural-resource excise tax on nonresident hunters and anglers and activated a Sourcewell cooperative purchasing account to cut costs.
Alaska News4d ago3 min readAI
Interior loses its salmon fishing — pike it is
Alaska closed king and chum salmon sport fishing across the Tanana drainage on weak Yukon forecasts, leaving Interior anglers to target dispersed pike on flooded Minto Flats.
Alaska News4d ago2 min readAI
A storied Alaska king run falls short again — the Nushagak goes catch-and-release Sunday
ADF&G is banning king salmon retention across the entire Nushagak-Mulchatna drainage from 12:01 a.m. Sunday, June 28 through July 31, citing a run that has put only 6,240 fish past the Portage Creek sonar through June 24 — well behind projection on a stock already designated a concern since 2022.
Alaska News5d ago2 min readAI
In Prince William Sound, the one-king summer is the new normal
An Alaska Department of Fish and Game emergency order cuts the king salmon bag and possession limit to one fish across most Prince William Sound salt waters. King fishing has been reported as good near Cape Cleare on Montague Island, with a few fish also coming in Northwestern Prince William Sound.
Alaska News5d ago2 min readAI
Cod fishing is excellent in Resurrection Bay — and walkable from Seward
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game's June 25 fishing report for the North Gulf Coast and Resurrection Bay highlights excellent Pacific cod fishing inside the bay, fair-to-good king salmon conditions, and an active youth-only king salmon fishery in Seward Lagoon through July 31.
Alaska News5d ago1 min readAI
Seward gives its kids more time to catch a king
ADF&G extended the youth-only king salmon fishery at Seward Lagoon through 11:59 p.m. July 31, giving anglers 15 and younger more weeks to target hatchery kings that are not needed for broodstock, with a two-fish daily bag limit and harvest card required for kings 20 inches or longer.
Alaska News5d ago1 min readAI
Why Alaska is giving out-of-staters more kings as the runs falter
Alaska is doubling nonresident king salmon limits in Southeast despite statewide king declines — a quirk of the Pacific Salmon Treaty quota, not a reversal on conservation.
Alaska News5d ago2 min readAI