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    Alaska Should Transplant Sheep Again?

    Lack of suitable habitat is not the problem. Lack of animals is. Many thousands of square miles of ideal and historic sheep habitat is currently inhabited by few remaining, or in some cases, no sheep. In theory, the animals that remain are occupying the best habitat and have less competition...
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    Alaska Dall Sheep - Undersubscribed Non-Res Draw Hunts

    Agreed. The guide welfare tags and a guide lobbying program have no place in a state run fish and game management agency in my opinion. I don't think there should be such thing as a guided only draw tag. Personally, I'd like to see a pool of draw tags that everyone can apply for, with only a...
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    Alaska Dall Sheep - Undersubscribed Non-Res Draw Hunts

    The state only offered up one tag for each of these hunts, meaning no one applied for either.
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    Alaska Dall Sheep - Undersubscribed Non-Res Draw Hunts

    Non-res can hunt some draw tags and HT hunts with 2nd degree of kindred. These, however, are limited to only guided non-res...
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    Alaska Dall Sheep - Undersubscribed Non-Res Draw Hunts

    I agree. In this case, non-res had a chance and they weren't interested. Everyone should get a chance in the second offering rather than the state lobbying for more business for the guides. As to why there was no interest in the first round, the status of the sheep population in AK is...
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    Alaska Dall Sheep - Undersubscribed Non-Res Draw Hunts

    I am curious to get some other takes on this situation. I have a few thoughts, but will hold them for now. Got this email from ADFG yesterday. Undersubscribed in this context means more permits were available for these hunts than were applied for in the draw. ADFG has left over draw tags...
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    Kenai River King Salmon - Circling the Drain

    Those fish are descents of Columbia River chinook. Very interesting to see how hatchery transplants have been able to establish a self-sustaining population there. There aren't too many examples of that happening as hatchery bananas are notoriously bad at, well, living and reproducing. The...
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    Kenai River King Salmon - Circling the Drain

    There is actually a bill in front of the legislature now to buy back some of the setnet permits in Cook Inlet https://alaskafish.news/05/2023/cook-inlet-setnet-buyback-salmon-rehab-bills-before-ak-legislature/ https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/33?Hsid=SB0082A One single setnet site, the...
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    Kenai River King Salmon - Circling the Drain

    The 2024 early and late run king salmon pre-season forecasts for the Kenai are out. https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/fishing/pdfs/sport/byarea/southcentral/2024KenaiLRforecast.pdf A few highlights: "The 2024 forecast for large (>75 cm mideye-to-tail-fork-length [METF] or approximately >34...
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    Kenai River King Salmon - Circling the Drain

    Great points. Using the current model for the preseason forecast as a management tool is irresponsible at best. The “formula” that ADFG uses to project king returns is badly out of date. Even when the formulas ratio of age classes based on brood year returns was more accurate, the forecast...
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    Kenai River King Salmon - Circling the Drain

    Incorrect in all cases. It is clear that reading comprehension and critical thinking are not your strong suits.
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    Kenai River King Salmon - Circling the Drain

    ""To get a better idea of the MASSIVE scale of aggregate fecundity loss over my fishing career on the Kenai, let's look specifically at 4-ocean females that were once the backbone of the spawning population. When Kenai king returns were healthy, a typical late run could be 60k, half of them were...
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    Kenai River King Salmon - Circling the Drain

    The early run has largely been written off as a lost cause. It certainly warrants the same if not greater concern and protection as the LR, but most think it is too far gone to recover and as such aren't pushing any sort of additional action or management on the ER. There will be some data...
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    Kenai River King Salmon - Circling the Drain

    https://craigmedred.news/2024/01/16/fall-of-the-kings/ Great article by Craig Medred published yesterday that talks about this issue and a whole lot more.
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    Kenai River King Salmon - Circling the Drain

    Another, in my opinion, large problem with delaying sockeye netting is that the bulk of the big kings needed for escapement are showing up later in the season, late July and well into August. Some say this is due to the run timing shifting while others say that it is due to the early part of...
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    Kenai River King Salmon - Circling the Drain

    Very good points in each case. We will never really know the true impact of the ESSN fleet on kings since there is basically no monitoring or enforcement. Hopefully something can come from the state's buy back initiative. Even just getting the Salamatoff site offline would make a huge...
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    Alaska Sheep Hunt Pricing

    What if a dude empties his rifle at a ram at 85 yards and doesn't draw blood? Yes, that happens...
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    Alaska Sheep Hunt Pricing

    For Mont's operation or for guides as a whole in the Wrangells? If that has changed, they need to update their web site. Our sheep success rate for the last 13 years has been a 93% harvest rate (76 rams out of 82 clients). We have some of the best locations to hunt dall sheep and grizzly bear...
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    Kenai River King Salmon - Circling the Drain

    I think the primary impact that this proposal would have on the comm fish and ESSN folks is that they would be doing the bulk of their sockeye harvesting later in the season. From a sockeye run timing standpoint, that doesn't seem to be problematic seeing as how the sockeye have been coming in...
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    Kenai River King Salmon - Circling the Drain

    Yes in that the proposal calls for starting the season with CNR when the pre-season forecast (PSF) is less then 18,750 fish, and starting the season closed to all fishing if the PSF is less than 15,000 fish. Then throughout the season the proposal calls for earlier assessment and projections of...

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