Karluk News

A Kodiak Island salmon fishery will close Wednesday because of a faltering run. The Anchorage Daily News reports that biologists will close the king salmon sport fishery on the Ayakulik River because fewer than 1,800 kings were recently counted past the weir.

Due to low escapement, the Karluk River sockeye salmon sport fishery bag limit is reduced to two fish per day, and the possession limit is reduced to four.

SEAN PEARSON / Associated Press archive 2006 / Kindal Murry, of Columbia Falls, Mont., right, stands by a 77-pound lingcod he caught in 2006.

A second straight year of weak king salmon returns around the rim of the Gulf of Alaska has state fisheries biologists wondering if they might be staring into the face of a bleak future.

The king salmon season is underway at Ship Creek. High tide drew many fisherman to the creek Wednesday morning, June 10, 2009.

One of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough's most popular streams will be closed to king salmon fishing because of poor returns.

State officials are closing or restricting several sport fisheries in the Kodiak area because of late salmon runs.

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There's another poor return forecast for king salmon on Kodiak's Karluk River, and that's prompting the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to restrict the sportfishing season before it even starts.