Join KRITFC, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Alaska Department of Fish & Game on Thursday, April 21, 2022, from 1-5pm for a virtual Kuskokwim River Listening Session!
2021 Kuskokwim River Subsistence Harvest and Effort Estimates
In 2021, KRITFC and Orutsararmiut Native Council Fisheries, in collaboration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and independent contractors, collected and processed data to produce in-season subsistence salmon harvest and effort estimates from a lower river portion of the mainstem Kuskokwim River.
Transition from Federal to State Management
July Federal Fishing Opportunities
June 21, 2021: No federal fishing opportunity announced
USFWS Federal Management Action
Delta Discovery: Fishing for the Future
This year, we need to fish with future generations of Kuskokwim communities in mind because the time to protect king salmon and our fishing ways of life is now. This is the mindset that the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge are bringing to Federal fisheries management this season.
2021 Federal Management Action: Closures & Subsistence Harvest Opportunities (Emergency Special Action No.: 3-KS-01-21 )
The Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge Manager determined that Federal management is necessary for the conservation and the continuation of subsistence uses for Chinook salmon within the Kuskokwim River drainage. Read more for information about Federal closures, subsistence harvest opportunities, and alternative fishing means and methods during times of Chinook salmon conservation.