UCIDA is asking for the court to block the amendment or any other that would close the EEZ, order NMFS to prepare an FMP that addresses “the entire Cook Inlet salmon fishery, including state ...

“Because by shutting down the EEZ – I’m a Cook Inlet commercial fisher, I’m a drifter, I spend about 50 percent of my time or more fishing the EEZ, the federal waters of Cook Inlet, where ...

“If the EEZ is closed, basically commercial fishing in Cook Inlet is going to be put out of business,” Martin said. The offshore area extending north from roughly Anchor Point accounts for ...

Cook Inlet drift fishermen can fish the federal waters of the inlet this summer after all. ... “Opening the EEZ is vital to the fleet,” Huebsch said. “Without opening the EEZ, ...

The Cook Inlet Exclusive Economic Zone, or EEZ, starts three miles off shore and is where drift gillnet fishermen catch the majority of fish. In 2020, commercial fishermen sued over management of ...

KENAI, Alaska, November 5, 2021 (ENS) – The Biden Administration has closed the federal waters of Alaska’s Cook Inlet to commercial salmon fishing for the 2022 Cook Inlet commercial salmon […] ...

Cook Inlet belugas were added to the endangered species list in 2008; despite this, the whales have continued to decline, with recent estimates showing just 279 whales in the area.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration will be fighting in court to keep much of Cook Inlet closed to commercial salmon fishing after a federal judge approved the state’s request to intervene in ...