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Alaska Wildlife In Trouble?
Posted on 5/15/14 at 7:27 am
Posted on 5/15/14 at 7:27 am
First, I see people proudly keeping small halibut that we'd have laughed at 25 years ago (since so few large ones are caught these days)....
I see that it's taking multiple days to limit (if you can limit) on salmon for dipnetting (it used to only take no more than a few hours in one day at most).....
Then the King Salmon fishery was closed after the 1st day since there wasn't enough entering the rivers to repopulate.....
My neighbor's caribou hunt was cancelled last fall due to population issues...
now this story?
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No Hunting on North Slope as Moose Numbers Plummet
State wildlife officials have closed nearly all moose hunting north of the Brooks Range because of what they call a drastic decline in the population.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports all moose hunting is closed to non-residents because of a decline of 50 percent to 75 percent since 2011. The only resident hunt will take place in late summer.
Moose surveys conducted last month found the population on the western North Slope declined by 50 percent since 2011. The eastern North Slope decline was 75 percent.
Officials said poor nutrition because of last year's late spring and poor summer conditions are likely to blame. There were few 10-month calves seen, meaning most born last year died. Officials say wolves preying on weakened moose might also be a factor.
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WTF?
I see that it's taking multiple days to limit (if you can limit) on salmon for dipnetting (it used to only take no more than a few hours in one day at most).....
Then the King Salmon fishery was closed after the 1st day since there wasn't enough entering the rivers to repopulate.....
My neighbor's caribou hunt was cancelled last fall due to population issues...
now this story?
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No Hunting on North Slope as Moose Numbers Plummet
State wildlife officials have closed nearly all moose hunting north of the Brooks Range because of what they call a drastic decline in the population.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports all moose hunting is closed to non-residents because of a decline of 50 percent to 75 percent since 2011. The only resident hunt will take place in late summer.
Moose surveys conducted last month found the population on the western North Slope declined by 50 percent since 2011. The eastern North Slope decline was 75 percent.
Officials said poor nutrition because of last year's late spring and poor summer conditions are likely to blame. There were few 10-month calves seen, meaning most born last year died. Officials say wolves preying on weakened moose might also be a factor.
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WTF?
Posted on 5/15/14 at 7:38 am to CoastieGM
I thought we watched a video about how the wolves have saved yellowstone wildlife. Now they are preying on meese!
Posted on 5/15/14 at 8:49 am to CoastieGM
That all sounds eerily like the CA wiildlife drop offs. Good news is that (at least for salmon)the numbers have jumped back up big time.
btw - what is that in your avi? Been meaning to ask that for a while now.
btw - what is that in your avi? Been meaning to ask that for a while now.
Posted on 5/15/14 at 8:58 am to CoastieGM
My ex had a really good friend who worked at one of the big chum salmon hatcheries in BC. We went and visited her at the hatchery and she gave me the personal tour. Hearing them talk about the salmon populations was kind of alarming. The land mammal issue seems to be more incidental whereas the salmon issues are almost systemic.
Posted on 5/15/14 at 9:53 am to CoastieGM
King salmon numbers are back up in Southeast. I suspect lower numbers of some species can be attributed to subsistence hiring/fishing due to population growing. This happened on Baffin Island in Canada a few years ago. Subsistence is the least monitored activity and the sportsman is the odd man out
Posted on 5/15/14 at 10:56 am to Galactic Inquisitor
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Hearing them talk about the salmon populations was kind of alarming. The land mammal issue seems to be more incidental whereas the salmon issues are almost systemic
Salmon runs were almost at historic highs in S.E. last year. We're not having wildlife issues either. There's probably a number of factors contributing to populations dwindling in the rest of the state, and I suspect it has to do with the human population increasing.
I'll never go fishing on the Kenai again. It's ridiculous. Anywhere within 100 miles of Anchorage is about the same.
Posted on 5/15/14 at 11:02 am to DonChowder
quote:Crossed cannons. Rating Badge for a Gunner's Mate. Dates back to 1797.
btw - what is that in your avi? Been meaning to ask that for a while now.
God is good,
God is great,
Even God was a Gunner's Mate!
Posted on 5/15/14 at 11:18 am to jimjackandjose
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I thought we watched a video about how the wolves have saved yellowstone wildlife. Now they are preying on meese!
Wolves aren't the problem. Biologists have been thinning bears in the NW arctic, they are more likely part of the problem. The wolf population has actually dwindled which usually happens as the populations they feed on drop.
Posted on 5/15/14 at 11:50 am to RogerTheShrubber
I was trolling... Alaskan wolf population isnt anything new that would cause drastic population decrease
Posted on 5/15/14 at 11:54 am to RogerTheShrubber
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I'll never go fishing on the Kenai again. It's ridiculous. Anywhere within 100 miles of Anchorage is about the same.
Insane is more like it. A million times more crowded than the lower 48.
We quickly learned we'll only go dipnetting, fish out of someone's boat, go clamming, or something else the tourists haven't overrun.
Posted on 5/15/14 at 11:55 am to CoastieGM
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Insane is more like it. A million times more crowded than the lower 48.
Yep. Combat fishing. It's nothing like that in S.E. Benefit to being off the road system.
Posted on 5/15/14 at 5:24 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Salmon runs were almost at historic highs in S.E. last year
This was around 8 years ago that I last went up there. I also learned that picking up a rock and tossing it into the woods can cause a group of adults to duck and cover or run depending on their makeup. I've never lived in bear county.
Posted on 5/15/14 at 5:32 pm to Galactic Inquisitor
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picking up a rock and tossing it into the woods can cause a group of adults to duck and cover
Bears don't play though.
Posted on 5/15/14 at 6:27 pm to Galactic Inquisitor
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can cause a group of adults to duck and cover or run depending on their makeup. I've never lived in bear county.
I'm gonna say the adults who reacted hadn't either...
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