At 68 bulls shot this season, it’s still well below last year’s total, when the count was 117 moose killed.
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Board of Game tackles Southeast hunting changes at January meeting in Petersburg
State managers, Southeast residents, hunters, companies and municipalities have submitted 53 proposed changes; 16 of those would make changes region-wide.
Southeast’s commercial red king crab fishery won’t open in 2018
Based on an annual crab stock survey, Fish and Game estimates of legal-sized male crab have declined 9 percent from last year.
Permit holders, processing workers included in pink salmon disaster money draft plan
Under a draft plan released this summer, commercial fishermen in Southeast Alaska would get only a small portion of the $56.3 million appropriated by Congress to address a pink salmon disaster in 2016.
Hatchery chum catch sets new Southeast record
The purse seine fleet at Crawfish Inlet south of Sitka caught 900,000 chum salmon on Thursday, a new record chum catch for a one-day opening in Southeast Alaska.
Kake fish hatchery to reopen with new system
A nonprofit bought Kake’s fish hatchery last year and plans to have salmon in the building this fall. The new program will supply chum and king salmon to two different areas near the small town of 600 people as well as a few jobs.