IPHC adopts significant decrease in halibut harvests for 2025

The International Pacific Halibut Commission adopted season dates and harvest limits for all IPHC areas at the close of the Annual meeting Friday January 31, 2025.

Season dates for all areas will open March 20 at 6AM local time and close December 7 at 23:59PM local time.

Alaska Board of Game adopts regulations impacting hunting in the Aleutians East Borough

The Board of Game is meeting in Wasilla this week to consider game proposals for Southwest and Central Alaska game management units. The Board has adopted the following proposals that impact hunting opportunities in Aleutians East Borough communities.

• Proposal 1 to reauthorize the brown bear tag fee exemptions for the Central and Southwest Region Units, states that a resident tag is not required for taking a brown bear in specified units and areas, including in Unit 9D within five miles of the communities of Cold Bay, King Cove, Sand Point and Nelson Lagoon, and in Unit 10 within three miles of the community of False Pass. This exemption is adopted annually.
• Proposal 7 to extend the fall Southern Alaska Peninsula caribou season for residents and nonresidents, extends the open season dates for caribou in Unit 9D from August 1-September 30, to August 1-October 21.
• Proposal 12 to lengthen the fall brown bear hunting seasons in Units 9D and 9E for both residents and nonresidents, will return the fall season dates for brown bear in GMUs 9D & 9E to October 1-21, before the season was shortened to the current October 7-21.
• Proposal 15 to lengthen the non-resident spring brown bear hunting seasons in Units 9D and 9E, will return the spring season dates for brown bear in GMUs 9D & 9E to May 10-31, before the season was shortened to the current May 10-25.
• Proposal 21 to remove the two per day bag limit for beaver when taken by firearm during April 15–May 31 in Unit 9, will now enact no bag limit on beaver taken by firearms during the open season October-May 31, the same as trapping regulations.
• Proposal 22 will shorten the season for hunting wolverine in Unit 9 for both residents and nonresidents to September1-February 28, instead of September 1-March 31.

The Alaska Board of Game will meet at the Best Western Lake Lucille Inn in Wasilla, Alaska through January 17. The meeting is also live-streamed on the Board's homepage.