Ninilchik Tribal Council files suit over inability to subsistence fish

The 2015 fishing season on the Kenai River was tough for a lot of fishermen. But one user group is alleging it was illegally bad.
The Ninilchik Tribal Council contends that the federal government’s slow response and inefficient processes denied the community its federally mandated subsistence salmon harvest opportunity in the Kenai River last summer.
The council filed suit Oct. 23 in Alaska Federal Court against representatives of the Federal Subsistence Board, the U.S. Department of Inter