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2020 Yukon Area Fall Season Summary

12/30/2020

This announcement provides a preliminary summary of the 2020 Yukon Area (Figure 1) fall chum and coho salmon harvests and escapements. All results are considered preliminary.2020 Fall Season OutlookThe fall chum salmon run size forecast, using brood year analysis, was for 936,000 fish, with a range of 827,000 to 1,045,000 fish. A preseason run size projection was made in mid-July using the relationship between historical summer and fall chum salmon run size estimates. Using the estimate of 782,000 summer chum salmon, the preseason projection for a fall chum salmon was a run size of less than 450,000 fish.The coho salmon outlook for 2020 was for an average run size of 240,000 fish. The outlook assumed an average survival of fish from the 2016 parent year and was based on recent trends of average to below average runs.

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Mountain goat harvest closed in Mount Katlian Zone on Baranof Island

12/15/2020

SITKA, Alaska – Sitka District Ranger Perry Edwards, under authority delegated by the Federal Subsistence Board, is closing the Mount Katlian Zone to the harvest of mountain goats. The closure will be effective December 17, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. and will remain in effect through the rest of the 2020 season which ends December 31. 

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Regulations for the Subsistence Take of Wildlife Published in Federal Register

11/23/2020

On November 23, 2020, the Federal Subsistence Board (Board) published the final rule for the Federal Subsistence Management Regulations for the Taking of Wildlife on Federal public lands and waters in Alaska in the Federal Register (85 FR 74796). This final rule revises regulations for seasons, harvest limits, and methods and means related to the taking of wildlife for subsistence uses in Alaska for the 2020–21 and 2021–22 regulatory years. This rule also revises customary and traditional use determinations for wildlife.  [[{"fid":"63025","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","alignment":""},"link_text":"nr-wl-finalrule-2020.pdf","type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"default","alignment":""}},"attributes":{"class":"media-element file-default","data-delta":"1"}}]]

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Federal subsistence moose hunting season to close in a portion of Unit 5A

10/28/2020

YAKUTAT, Alaska - Yakutat District Ranger Lee Benson, under authority delegated by the Federal Subsistence Board, is closing the 2020 Federal subsistence moose season for that portion of Unit 5A east of the Dangerous River, except the Nunatak Bench, effective Oct. 28, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) will implement a closure for the State season.

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Federal deer season extended in Unit 3

10/28/2020

PETERSBURG, Alaska – Petersburg District Ranger Ted Sandhofer, under authority delegated by the Federal Subsistence Board, is extending the Federal deer season in Unit 3 on Mitkof, Woewodski, Butterworth Islands and that portion of Kupreanof Island on the Lindenberg Peninsula east of Portage Bay - Duncan Canal Portage through 11:59 p.m., Nov. 7, 2020 with a harvest limit of 1 buck. The harvest limit is also revised from antlered deer to buck in the remainder of Unit 3.

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