The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced Tuesday that sport and personal use razor clam fisheries will open for a four-day period from July 1 to July 4.
NINILCHIK, Alaska - For the first time in nine years, personal use clamming will be allowed on some beaches along the Cook Inlet’s eastern shoreline — but only for a few days.that sport and personal use razor clam fisheries will open for a four-day period from July 1 to July 4.
The harvest area is limited to shoreline mostly south of Ninilchik. The department outlined an area starting three miles north of the mouth of the Ninilchik River — near Lemans Point — all the way down to the Homer Spit, although Booz said most clamming opportunities exist closer to the Ninilchik area.
Booz said the mortality rates of adult razor clams have been between 60% to 80%, and the juvenile populations have been hit particularly hard.″Clam’s numbers really don’t have an ability to really rebuild right now, the historical numbers just based on these really high natural mortality rates that we’ve been seeing,” he said.
Fish and Game established in March of 2022 a count to be at or better than 50% of the historical average in population counts, and that the expected harvest of residents is not to exceed more than 10% of the total adult clam population. Booz said it will be the only opportunity for the foreseeable future, noting that Fish and Game does not plan to reopen the fishery in 2024 or 2025.
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