10-08-2016 01:21 via alaskapublic.org

Set-netters get emergency opener

Commercial sockeye fishing in upper Cook Inlet will be decided on a day-by-day basis from here until the end of the season.
Credit Alaska Department of Fish and Game“We’re going to provide the set-net fishery with a 12-hour opening and then we’ll reassess after we get the data in from that period, the catches in from that period. And we’ll reassess where we’re at with escapement of sockeye, and we’ll also take a look at king salmon. And so it will be kind of a
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