Alaska wild salmon

[DapperDan]

Here is a great podcast covering issues that the state of Alaska is facing. My wife and I were there last year and hunted off the mulchatna and talked to fishing guides that were on that river and we fished guided twice on the kenai. We fished the kenai in 2021. It was night and day difference during the same week of September on the kenai. If I’m not mistaken there was one type of salmon that didn’t run up the kenai and the numbers seemed down on the mulchatna. Silvers were almost non existent on the kenai from what we were told.

I hope the state can figure out the issue and quick. My wife and I are life long Texans and fell in love with the state of Alaksa from the very first day we arrived.

Fecundity Matters feat. Gale Vick & Olivia Irwin

Podcast Episode · The Northern Hunter Podcast · 03/31/2025 · 2h 46m

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[Chickenchit]

For what its worth, they want 750k - 1.3M sockeye to run up the Kenai as their escapement goal. 1.9M+ went up 2024 and 2.3M+ in 2023. Not sure that they have a goal for Coho. I'm not sure if you were targeting silvers, but would think that Reds would be a late July into August show.

 

[Czechsix]

Welcome to the usual mismanagement, and the whole commercial fishing industry situation. I don't think it's going to get much better, at least not within the next few years.

 

[DapperDan]

For what its worth, they want 750k - 1.3M sockeye to run up the Kenai as their escapement goal. 1.9M+ went up 2024 and 2.3M+ in 2023. Not sure that they have a goal for Coho. I'm not sure if you were targeting silvers, but would think that Reds would be a late July into August show.

We were fishing for rainbows in September both times. The silver numbers what were told to us by the guides. My wife did hook up on a silver but wasn’t able to land it. How ever the numbers were down last year. We landed 2 silvers in the upper Kenai on our first trip within a few mins of throwing streamers in a hole that held silvers. Plus we watched a group of people 2 days in a row limit on silvers from the bank.


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[kwackkillncrew]

Silvers we pretty slow in most rivers in sc ak last year, ship creek even had a super low return rate. It seems it is a very sad state of affairs for salmon other then reds. Some people blame it on the in river fishery, some people blame environmental factors and other blame the trawlers.

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[Snowwolfe]

Its a pretty complex situation and no two groups seem to agree on a solution. Some blame it on warmer water temperatures, some say the over abundance of hatchery raised pinks is causing some of the issues facing the kings. Others feel the foreign trawlers are stealing Alaska's fish.
The king fishery has been declining since about 1990. The reds and pinks seems to be doing very well and most years reds do exceptionally well. Silvers seem hit or miss.