7/28/10 Contents:
Fish Creek Personal Use Fishery
Ice Road Portage Land Sale Solution
Stolen Outboard Motor Update
Jet Ski Malicious Mischief
7/28/10 (Forwarded by Rep. Neuman)
PERSONAL USE FISHING Emergency Order
ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH &
GAME
Under Authority of AS 16.05.060
Emergency Order No. 2-RS-2-38-10 Issued
at: Palmer, Wednesday, July 21,
2010
Effective Date: 6:00 a.m., Saturday,
July 24, 2010 Expiration Date: 11:00
p.m., Saturday, July 31, 2010 unless
superseded by subsequent emergency
order.
EXPLANATION:
This emergency order opens Fish Creek
in the Big Lake drainage to personal use
dipnetting for salmon other than king
salmon starting at 6:00 a.m., July 24,
through 11:00 p.m., July 31. King salmon
may not be retained; any king salmon
caught must be released immediately.
Dipnetting is only allowed between the
hours of 6:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. In
order to participate in this personal
use fishery, dip netters must have a
2010 Cook Inlet Personal Use Permit and
a 2010 resident sport fishing license.
The area open to dipnetting is from ADF&G
regulatory markers located on both sides
of the terminus of Fish Creek, to ADF&G
regulatory markers located approximately
one quarter mile upstream from
Knik-Goose Bay Road.
REGULATION:
The provisions of 5 AAC 77.540 Upper
Cook Inlet Personal Use Salmon Fishery
Management Plan (d)(1) are superseded by
this emergency order. Under this
emergency order, the following
provisions are effective from 6:00 a.m.,
Saturday, July 24, through 11:00 p.m.,
Saturday, July 31, 2010:
5AAC 77.540 Upper Cook Inlet Personal
Use Salmon Fishery Management Plan.
(d) Salmon may be taken by dip net in
Fish Creek as follows:
(1) the personal use dip net fishery
in Fish Creek will open beginning 6:00
a.m., July 24 through
11:00 p.m., July 31, 2010, because the
department projects that the escapement
of sockeye salmon into Fish Creek will
be above the upper end of the escapement
goal of 70,000 fish. Fishing is allowed
daily only from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00
p.m.;
Denby S. Lloyd, Commissioner
7/25/10
Land Sale Solution in the works:
Representative Mark Neuman has cordial
agreement from the Mental Health Land
Trust to keep the Big Lake - Mud Lake
ice road (I-5) portage trail open by
either establishing right of way or
removing the affected parcels from the
land sale. At this stage they are
doing what we want, so Mark suggests it
is best not to continue to call the Land
Trust office. He will keep our
community informed of the resolution to
this problem and I will post
developments here. Thanks to all
those who wrote with comments and
suggestions. The list of those
interested is now too long to post here.
- Larry Taylor
State
Government Contact:
Representative_Mark_Neuman@legis.state.ak.us
7/15/10 Outboard Motors Stolen from
Flat Lake Landing
(with 7/25/10 update lower down):
7-13-10 photo:
Two outboards were stolen from skiffs
tied up along the bank at the Flat Lake
Landing early this week. Jake
Jacobsen fund his gone when coming in to
the lake on Tuesday and noticed that
Craig Johnson's skiff was missing a
motor, too. Both were taken
together with their gas cans. Both
are pictured above. A police
report has been filed. An attempt
had been made to take Larry and Gail
Taylor's motor a few weeks earlier, but
the thieves did not have the right tools
to make a go of it. Craig says.
"You can be on the lookout for a 1964
merc 200, 20 HP - a pretty distinctive
motor, not many around any more."
Update:
Hello Larry,
That’s awful about the boat motors.
Interestingly enough, a motor appeared
on the back of my skiff that same
weekend. Obviously, someone needed to
use my skiff…now I’m wondering if that
motor was stolen.
I didn’t use the skiff last weekend-I
would have, but I didn’t have a gas
tank! I can see my boat with someone
else’s motor in the picture you posted.
Mine is the third boat in. Also, my
kayak was stolen from
my property this year. The very same
weekend (Memorial Day Weekend) I saw the
exact same kayak sitting on the shore at
the channel all weekend long, unused. It
had Coleman paddles with it, which I was
also missing. I reclaimed what I thought
was mine. I posted a sign with my phone
number, if this kayak was indeed someone
else’s. I never received a call on the
kayak, but definitely want to be sure I
didn’t take someone else’s.
Hope all is well.
Laura Hill 907-230-1240
Malicious Mischief Reported 7/13/10
Tuesday night on 7-13-10. My jet ski was
taking for a joy ride without my consent
and they did a lot of damage to it. The
Haggard's said they were in a thunder
jet kind of boat, and they saw my jet
ski with them making a ton of noise
doing brodies in the boat. They didn't
think anything of it because it was late
and they didn't think it was mine, but
it was. There are only a few of them
around and when I came up that next
weekend I noticed that it wasn't put up
the way I left it and it had no fuel in
it so I started looking it over and saw
all the damage to it. They did about
1000+ dollars in damage to it. This
thing was in brand new condition and
they don't make them anymore and I kept
it nice so I'm pretty bummed out about
the whole thing. But they rode it up on
shore and messed up the haul and the jet
unit. I talked to the neighbor and they
said they met some people in a thunder
jet and they left on Monday so I'm
hoping it was them but I need some kind
of proof before I go after them for the
damage. If anyone has any information
about this it would be
greatly appreciated.
Austin Goodrich 907-441-1836
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