2017 Yukon River Summer Salmon Fishery News Release # 27 District 2 Commercial Fishing Schedule

Districts Affected: Lower Yukon Area

This news release announces changes commercial fishing times for District 2 based on tender operation, and supersedes News Release # 24 from June 26 for District 2.

Subsistence fishing in District 2 will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week except closed 2 hours before, during, and 2 hours after commercial periods. Commercial and subsistence fishing schedules are available 24 hours a day at (866) 479-7387.

06/28/2017
Last edited 01/25/2022
Contact Information

Holly Carroll, Area Management Biologist
Deena Jallen, Assistant Area Management Biologist
Phone: (907) 949-1320

District 2 Commercial:

Commercial fishing with dip nets and beach seines only will open for two 8-hour periods to target summer chum salmon:

  • From 4 p.m. until midnight, Wednesday, June 28
  • From 4 p.m. until midnight, Friday, June 30

All Chinook salmon must be released alive from commercial dip nets and beach seines and recorded on a fish ticket.

This is an announcement by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

If you have any questions, please call ADF&G in Emmonak at 949-1320, or the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Emmonak at 949-1798. Commercial and subsistence fishing schedules are available 24 hours a day at (866) 479-7387.

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