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 ...

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, ...

“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 ...

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 […] ...

Second, United Cook argued that Alaska was not properly managing the escapement of salmon in Cook Inlet.The Magnuson-Stevens Act requires limits on the number of fish caught. 16 U.S.C. § 1853(a)(15).

May 12—Hilcorp has bought out one of the last small independent natural gas operators in the Cook Inlet basin outside of Anchorage — furthering consolidation among the companies that supply ...

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.

The earthquake, which occurred at 1:42 p.m. Alaska Standard Time, took place across the Cook Inlet from the Kenai Peninsula and 38 miles east of Port Alworth, ...

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 ...