Coast Guard rules make licensing, exam harder for area fishing guides

David Parks Jr. gives some casting tips to his client Sarah Pearl in the Kulik River at the Bristol Bay Guide Academy, June 2015. (Photo by Matt Martin/KDLG)
An upcoming course at the Southwest Alaska Vocational and Education Center will help prospective fishing guides get ready for a Coast Guard exam required to get a “six-pack” operator’s license.
But area lodge owners say recent rule changes by the U.S. Coast Guard have made it the process of getting that license more diffic