Cook Inlet fishermen are asking the state to immediately reopen the fishery this season to its 440 or so permit-holders.
Days after they were ordered to take their nets out of the water, Cook Inlet set-netters are suing the state over the fishery’s closure.
Due to restrictions linked to the sport fishery, the east-side set-net fishery in Cook Inlet closes when king salmon abundance on the Kenai River is low. The set-netters were shut down early this year In their complaint, the fishermen said those closures are part of a larger trend of the state allocating salmon to the other fisheries at their expense.
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