' Citing a small harvest and only about a 50 percent participation rate, the Department of Fish and Game will issue twice as many whitefish spearfishing permits for the Chatanika River this year as it did last.

The unofficial word from Chitina is that dip netting for red salmon in the Copper River is good but not great.

The news from Chitina just keeps getting worse for dip-netters. Dip netting for red salmon in the Copper River is still reported to be slow and an extended closure of the commercial fishery in Cordova will ...