A northern pike is seen swimming in this undated photo. Northern pike are native to much of Alaska, but not to the Southcentral region south of the Alaska Range. Illegal introductions that started in ...

Commercial and recreational salmon fishing in the federal waters of Cook Inlet will resume this summer, but under new management by the federal government, according to a rule made final this week.

Two commercial fishing advocacy groups based on the Kenai Peninsula are again taking the federal government to court over its proposed management strategy for fishing in Cook Inlet’s federal waters.

The Kenai Harbor in 2022. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued a final ruling on a disputed commercial salmon fishing area in Cook Inlet. The Cook Inlet Exclusive Economic ...

Facing a second year of restricted fishing, some setnetters on the east side of Cook Inlet, in the US state of Alaska, are experimenting with purse seine gear as a workaround to salvage their season ...

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In the fall of 2018, officials with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and their partners celebrated what they thought was a milestone: an end to the infestation of invasive northern pike in the ...

But to the Department of Fish and Game, it is important to keep the Kenai Peninsula pike-free, as well as the western side of Cook Inlet. That is both to protect the region’s economically valuable ...