Fish Creek fun

After being closed for many recent summers, Fish Creek in the Big Lake drainage opened as a Personal Use Fishery at 6 a.m., Friday, July 25. The dip net fishery — at Mile 16, Knik-Goose Bay Road — will close at 11 p.m., Thursday. People need a fishing license and a dipnet permit and they can harvest 25 salmon as the head of household and 10 for each child in the household. As of July 23, more than 20,200 sockeye salmon have passed through the Fish Creek weir, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The area open to dipnetting is from ADF&G regulatory markers located on both sides of the terminus of Fish Creek, upstream to Fish and Game markers approximately one quarter mile upstream from Knik-Goose Bay Road.