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03/24/2023

05/26/2022

🤩 ADF&G Streambank Restoration staff would like to thank everyone who participated in the 2022 Southcentral Streambank Rehabilitation Workshop virtual classroom and the hands-on portion.

🌿 The Kenai hands-on participates were able to install 70-ft of brush layer, 100-ft of cabled spruce trees, and 70-ft of vegetative mat along the Kenai River. 🏞The Mat-Su hands-on percipients were able to install 70-ft of brush layer, 70-ft of vegetative mat, and another 30-ft of trenched willows along Big Lake.

💚 If you’re interested in learning more about these types of projects or want to install a project like these on your property, please get a hold of Jess Johnson for the Kenai area or Michael Mazzacavallo for the Mat-Su 📧[email protected].

📷 First photo: May 2022 Kenai Peninsula Streambank Restoration Workshop participants on the Kenai River. 📷 Second photo: May 2022 Mat-Su Streambank Restoration Workshop participants on Big Lake. 😍 Thank you all for your hardwork.

05/26/2022

☀️🏃‍♀️🏃 Are you trying to plan out a couple summer activities to do with your kids this summer? Then check out this event in June!

🏞 Bring the whole family out to Jay Nolfi Fish Creek Park in Big Lake on June 4, 2022, from 10am until 2pm to join our staff and the Mat-Su Salmon Habitat Partnership in a community riparian planting day. 🌳 Help beautify a local park and learn more about the role of riparian areas in healthy salmon habitat! 🐟

⬇️ Check out the flyer below.

03/10/2022

07/14/2021

🎣 Want to try fishing but don't have the proper equipment?

The Rod Loaner Program is coming back beginning July 15. Click the link to find out more about the Rod Loaner Program and to find out which offices have fishing equipment to loan. http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=FishingSportFishAK.rodLoaner

Get Out and Fish. Together.

07/13/2021

Support your local port sampler!

Help keep Alaska’s saltwater fisheries healthy and sustainable. Bring your fish back to port and allow our port samplers to collect data.

McKenna Varela is the ADF&G Sport Fish port sampler stationed in Whittier for the Summer of 2021. McKenna has been working with the Department on and off since 2018 and got her start in the Sport Fish Information Center in Anchorage. McKenna was born and raised in Alaska and just finished her first year studying Environmental Science at Western Washington University. She plans to become a Fisheries Biologist. McKenna’s favorite part of port sampling is working with her favorite Alaskan rockfish, the Quillback.

Data collection only takes a few minutes and what we learn from you and the fish you keep aids in fisheries research and management. No matter what port you return to, if there is a port sampler collecting data, please bring them your fish.

Support your local port sampler!

07/08/2021

Join your host, Molly McCarthy-Cunfer, with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game as she meets with Alaska State Parks Ranger, Dan Amyot, and Alaska Departm...