The Alaska Department of Fish and Game reports Upper Cook Inlet Commercial Fishing Announcement No. 9 opens commercial salmon fishing with drift gillnets from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 2, 2022, in the Kasilof Section of the Upper Subdistrict only (not the Expanded Kasilof section).
As of June 30, 2022, the cumulative sockeye salmon escapement estimate for the Kasilof River was 91,051 and average run timing was 22%, and the year-end escapement projection was 418,000 sockeye salmon. Fishing in the above described waters is warranted to harvest sockeye salmon returning to the Kasilof River, while minimizing the harvest of Chinook salmon.
Fishermen and processors are reminded of the legal requirement to report all commercially harvested salmon on a fish ticket, whether sold or kept for personal use, using the correct statistical fishing area or areas (5 AAC 39.130(c)(7)).
Fish harvested in the drift gillnet fishery during this fishing period should be reported in statistical areas 244-61.
