East Side setnetters will fish the Kenai, Kasilof, and East Foreland sections tomorrow.
Emergency order No. 37 opens commercial fishing with set gillnets in the Kenai, Kasilof, and East Foreland sections of the Upper Subdistrict on Wednesday, July 29, 2015, from 8:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m.
This announcement also opens drift gillnetting in the Expanded Kenai and Expanded Kasilof sections of the Upper Subdistrict and the Anchor Point Section of the Lower Subdistrict on Wednesday, July 29, 2015, from 8:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m.
Commercial Fisheries Biologist Pat Shields…
On Tuesday, July 28, Upper Cook Inlet Commercial Fisheries staff estimated the total Kenai River sockeye salmon run to date to be 2.0 million fish.
The final run to the Kenai River is projected to range from 2.3 million to 3.5 million sockeye salmon.
The entire UCI sockeye salmon run to date was estimated to be 3.7 million fish through July 27, with a final run projected to range from 4.2 million to 5.9 million fish.
